![]() ![]() Selznick's illustrations work like a camera, zooming in on details and following his characters around as they move through the world. "I thought: Is there a way of combining what the cinema can do with panning, and zooming in and out, and edits, and what a picture book can do with page turns, and what a novel does?" Selznick says. Wonderstruck is both a novel and a picture book, a form Selznick first experimented with in The Invention of Hugo Cabret, when he had the idea of telling a story in much the same way that film does. But he gradually realized that he wanted to tell his own stories in both words and pictures - and to do that, Selznick invented a unique narrative device. ![]() He began his career as an artist collaborating with authors on children's books. It's not often that a writer can illustrate his own books, but Brian Selznick is that rare find. ![]()
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