The Invention of Hugo Cabret in Around the World in 80 Books

Jul 24, 2009 Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance rated it it was amazing

Shelves: children-s-books, france, kids-1001, picture-book

It struck me as gimmicky when I first picked it up. Pages and pages of pictures without text and then suddenly text and more text. I picked it up and put it back down. Then I read a review (maybe Nancy Pearl’s) and the reviewer raved about it. I decided to give it another chance. It turned out to be more powerful than a traditional novel for children and more powerful than a picture book. A mystery that is clever and unusual. I think it will go over big in my library.

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Mar 02, 2012 Nikoleta rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Nov 29, 2011 Kimberly rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-to-offspring, 2012-bookshelf, library-books-read-2012

3.5 Stars.

I know I've been a bit lax lately posting my reviews but I haven't been idle! I've already read 22 books this month so I'm doing pretty good but I will be posting my reviews faster now.

The main reason I wanted to read this book is because of the movie which I haven't seen yet but I think it looked really good so even though this was a kid's book I thought I would give it a try. I thought that this book was unique and I really enjoyed the artwork. The artwork was actually the best part 3.5 Stars.

I know I've been a bit lax lately posting my reviews but I haven't been idle! I've already read 22 books this month so I'm doing pretty good but I will be posting my reviews faster now.

The main reason I wanted to read this book is because of the movie which I haven't seen yet but I think it looked really good so even though this was a kid's book I thought I would give it a try. I thought that this book was unique and I really enjoyed the artwork. The artwork was actually the best part of the whole book in my opinion.

I will admit that the story was different from all the magic that seems to be in kids books now and it was nice to have a break from that but, I didn't really care for the writing in this book at all. I really wanted to like this one because I read a lovely review of it over at The Crazy Life of a Bookaholic Mom (one of my favourite blogs run by a fellow GoodReads group member). But I didn't like it all that much. I couldn't connect to any of the characters at all and found them all really annoying. I didn't like Hugo at all. I thought he was a little brat and he deserved to be treated as a nuisance. Yes his father dies but honestly his whole demeanor didn't sit well with me.

The only reason that I even bothered to finish it was on the hope that it would get a little better and it did slightly. I found Papa Georges part in the story to be interesting and it was one of the few things I did like apart from the artwork. Despite the idea for the plot being a good one and the artwork being so lovely I would have given this a much lower rating than I have. But, like always I encourage you to go out and try it yourselves. Just because I didn't like it, it doesn't mean that you won't and even though I thought the book was lacking a lot I would still recommend this for kids to read on their own or with someone. I think that for a children's book it could have been much worse but it could have also been much better. I do hope that whenever me and the Mister do watch this movie that I like it more than I did the book. ...more

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