Book is flat signed (not inscribed to a specific person) by the author.
Book and dust jacket are in Very Good condition. Dust jacket is protected in a removable, Brodart archive cover. Please see photos.
ABOUT THE BOOK (from Wikipedia):
In 1930s Paris, young Hugo Cabret and his father repair an automaton at the museum where his father works. When Hugo's father dies in a fire, his uncle brings him to live and work at the train station maintaining the clocks. His uncle disappears, and Hugo keeps the clocks running by himself, living inside the station walls and stealing food from the shops. He rescues the automaton from the burnt museum in hopes of restoring it. In the automaton, there is a key hole in the shape of the heart. Hugo is on a quest to find it.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret takes place in France as a young boy finds his purpose. It is a historical fiction book written and illustrated by Brian Selznick and published by Scholastic. The hardcover edition was released on January 30, hot 2007, and the paperback edition was released on June 2, 2008. With 284 pictures between the book's 533 pages, the book depends as much on its pictures as it does on the words. Selznick himself has described the book as "not exactly a novel, not quite a picture book, not really a graphic novel, or a flip book or a movie, but a combination of all these things". The book won the 2008 Caldecott Medal, the first novel to do so, as the Caldecott Medal is for picture books.
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Product code: SIGNED: hot The Invention of Hugo Cabret by BRIAN SELZNICK - First Edition and Printing