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Review of Big Tree
Big Tree by Brian Selznick; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Scholastic 528 pp. 4/23 9781338180633 $32.99 Selznick elegantly intertwines pictures and words to tell the macro story of the natural world through the micro perspective of two sycamore seeds. Louise and Merwin are siblings who occupy the same...
Review of Baby Monkey, Private Eye
Baby Monkey, Private Eyeby Brian Selznick and David Serlin; illus. by Brian SelznickPrimary Scholastic 192 pp.2/18 978-1-338-18061-9 $16.99Selznick, who won the 2008 Caldecott Medal for his 534-page picture book/novel hybrid The Invention of Hugo Cabret (rev. 3/07), here presents with coauthor and husband Serlin an almost-two-hundred-page…easy reader/film-noir homage. In five...
Brian Selznick & David Serlin Talk with Roger
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here.Sponsored by Brian Selznick. Photo: Slimane Lalami.At only 192 pages, Baby Monkey, Private Eye is modest by Brian Selznick's standards, but probably the biggest beginning-reader book you've ever...
High reader, low motivation
In retrospect, I realize now that I have been extremely lucky. My students have always been highly motivated to read. Obviously, I’ve encountered the spectrum when it comes to low to excellent readers, but nonetheless, my students needed only minimal encouragement to read. When students lost interest, a graphic novel...
Review of The Marvels
The Marvelsby Brian Selznick; illus. by the authorIntermediate, Middle School Scholastic 671 pp.9/15 978-0-545-44868-0 $32.99Selznick defined his own format with The Invention of Hugo Cabret (rev. 3/07) and Wonderstruck (rev. 9/11), and this book looks the same, on the outside. But Selznick has created something wholly different here, by introducing...
Studio Views: Human Mistakes and Trembling Lines
Almost all of my drawings are done with a Staedtler Mars technico lead holder, which is a blue plastic pencil that holds a 2mm lead in place. This type of pencil, which is sort of like a more heavy-duty version of a mechanical pencil (the kind with the very thin...
Wonderstruck
Dang, it’s hard to get a fresh reading of a new book these days. If Roger Sutton or Heavy Medal isn’t commenting on Wonderstruck before I have received it, Adam Gopnik is waxing about it in the New York Times. In my reviewing life, I normally read books that have not...
Review of Wonderstruck
Wonderstruckby Brian Selznick; illus. by the authorIntermediate, Middle School Scholastic 640 pp.9/11 978-0-545-02789-2 $29.99 gWith Wonderstruck’s opening wordless sequence of an approaching wolf, readers might think they’ve embarked upon a Gary Paulsen novel, but this is a story not of wilderness adventure but of two young people running — to...
Review of The Invention of Hugo Cabret
The Invention of Hugo Cabretby Brian Selznick; illus. by the authorIntermediate Scholastic 534 pp.3/07 ISBN 978-0-439-81378-5 $22.99Here’s a dilemma for the Newbery committee...and the Caldecott: what do you do with an illustrated novel in which neither text nor pictures can tell the story alone? Not to mention the drama to...
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