It's like watching a silent movie, in book form. It's a mysterious, heartwarming tale about an orphan boy who hides in a Paris train station, keeping the clocks running, hoping to one day uncover the secret of the little mechanical man left him by his father. It's the story of magic: the magic of clockworks, the magic of magic tricks, and the magic of the movies. It's about finding secrets, about rediscovering your past and reinventing yourself. And it's absolutely gorgeous. In The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Hugo’s got quite a challenging life for such a little boy—he has to work on clocks, he lives in a train station, he’s orphaned, and the list goes on. But he still somehow finds the time and optimism to be in awe of things. And no wonder! He’s experiencing the magic of film, automatons, and meeting a real live magician. If there’s anything that this book is about, it’s about magic—and how you can always be amazed by it. Georges Méliès finds magic in film, but there’s magic to be found in everyday life, too. After all, Hugo and Isabelle find it as they’re looking out over the city of Paris at night.
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