Hugo is a young boy in France living with his father. Hugo's father finds a broken robot in a museum attic but dies during the museum fire while trying to fix the robot. Hugo must go live with his uncle in the walls of the train station to maintain the station clocks but his uncle mysteriously disappears so Hugo must continue his uncle's job so he is not sent to an orphanage. Hugo must steal food in the train station as well as toy parts from the toymaker to try to fix the robot, but one day toymaker catches him. The toymaker takes Hugo's notebook of drawings and makes Hugo work in the shop to pay back his debt and Hugo begins to discover the mystery of the toymaker - Georges Melies. Hugo and Georges goddaughter Isabel learn that Georges was a very famous filmmaker and the two help bring him out of hiding to be honored by the film industry and Hugo is adopted by the Melies family.
This book is part picture book -many beautiful black and white drawings fill multiple pages to tell part of the story without words.
Inner dialogue is very important in this story to tell the story through Hugo's eyes.
View the following site for more info on Georges Melies.
http://www.theinventionofhugocabret.com/about_georges.htm
Selznick, Brian. (2007).
The Invention of hugo cabret. Scholastic.
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