Behind Hugo Cabret

At first i wasn't sure about Hugo, i just didn't think the topic really interested me, but I actually really enjoyed it. I took a film class last year and we watched several of the old movies mentioned in this book, and i also learned a bit about Georges Melies, and how movies were first made... it was interesting in that class, but it was also really cool the way it was incorporated into a children's book. I thought it was amazing how Brian Selznick took a true story of Georges Melies and the film industry, and added in a fictional story to go along with it. Because i knew the true parts of it , it was really cool to read this, and the way he wrote it made it really believable, and i had to check and look which parts were real and which weren't. I'm not sure how other people thought of the book if they hadn't had the background info about the films and Georges, but i thought it was awesome. Check out the website for Hugo : www.theinventionofhugocabret.com/ It gives alot of extra information i thought was really cool, and there's other links on the page for more information about all of the old movies mentioned, and Georges Melies, etc... check it out, this author put a lot of work into this book and it's cool to see where it all came from. ( there is also some extra info in the back of the book itself)