Rich, complex, affecting, and beautiful - with over 460 pages of original artwork - Wonderstruck is a stunning achievement from a uniquely gifted artist and visionary.~Jacket copy. How they unfold and ultimately intertwine will surprise you, challenge you, and leave you breathless with wonder.

Set fifty years apart, these two independent stories - Ben’s told in words, Rose’s in pictures - weave back and forth with mesmerizing symmetry. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue in his mother’s room and Rose reads an enticing headline in the newspaper, both children set out alone on desperate quests to find what they are missing. Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. Ben longs for the father he has never known. I feel that needs to be made clear (and I think it will become clear after the rambling)**.īen and Rose secretly wish their lives were different. What follows is a review and my working out my response. While I was not bored, I was a bit underwhelmed–again.

I was determined to give Wonderstruck a fair go*. I am fairly certain that myself and the daughter are among the very few who felt that way. I know that many of you know that I was underwhelmed, if not bored, by The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Wonderstruck : A Novel in Words and Pictures by Brian Selznick “ Wonderstruck should find its greatest effect with a Reader who will just plunge right in one who is okay with Literature one who can make many a layered connections and likes to think about their reads one who is really gone on Selznick’s artwork.” ~L (further down in this blog post.)

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