![]() ![]() It also explores the cycle of life and death, destiny, dreams and reality and life being a gift. īig Tree is a sweeping story with the major theme of saving the world together. ![]() His new book is Big Tree (published by Scholastic). Selznick followed this with the major works Wonderstruck (also made into a movie), The Marvels and Kaleidoscope. Is it a graphic novel or an illustrated book? By defying convention and foregrounding his extraordinary illustrations, Selznick created a new visual-literary form. ![]() Its combination of page after page of black and white drawings interspersed with pages of written text and its setting in a 1930s Paris train station where Hugo winds the clocks the Lumiere Cinématographe, automaton, the moon and a character based on the real-life filmmaker Georges Méliès broke the mould. Brian Selznick’s first major work The Invention of Hugo Cabret is a seminal book. ![]()
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