![]() ![]() ![]() All Natalie has to do is give the manuscript to her mom, an editor at a big publishing house. It's a short novel called 'The Cheater,' and her best friend Zoe is certain it should be published. Unwelcome even here, Joseph struggles to understand his uncle and uncovers a truth that he didn’t expect, about true family, and true stories. Brian Selznick is the Caldecott Medal-winning author and illustrator of the 1 New York Times bestsellers Wonderstruck and The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Twelve-year-old Natalie Nelson has written a powerful school story. ![]() Uncle Albert lives in a house that feels strangely from another time, where he seems to serve as caretaker for ghosts: no one else lives there, yet Joseph hears voices Uncle Albert keeps fires burning in the fireplaces and the rooms’ furniture and belongings undisturbed. Joseph runs away from his boarding school to find the uncle he hardly knows, in London. One child doesn’t fit the (theatrical) mold, and in a fateful night and a firestorm, the story abruptly ends. Over the first almost-four-hundred pages, his black-and-white drawings tell a story that readers will gather quickly: there is a storm, a shipwreck, and a rescue in a theater years pass, and a dynasty is born of sons of sons who love the stage and its stories. But Selznick has created something wholly different here, by introducing one entire narrative in images, followed by another in words, one encapsulating the other. A manga title makes the starred list, as well as two Kwame Alexander audiobooks, the latest Brian Selznick novel, a Joy McCullough title in both audio and print, and more. 9/11), and this book looks the same, on the outside. ![]() Selznick defined his own format with The Invention of Hugo Cabret (rev. ![]()
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