Marvelous Middle-Grade Monday!

Welcome to Marvelous Middle-Grade Monday at A Monster Ate My Book Report!

This is a great meme started by Ms. Shannon Messenger, author of her own Middle-Grade Book, Keeper of the Lost Cities.  There are lots of fantastic bloggers out their who are excited to tell you all about Middle-Grade Books, so make sure you check out Ms. Shannon's Blog to get all the links.

                                             http://ramblingsofawannabescribe.blogspot.com/

Thanks,

Marsh and Emiline

Emiline's MMGM Pick for this week is WONDERSTRUCK by Brian Selznick

   

     I chose Wonderstruck as my MMGM, because it is by the same author as The Invention of Hugo Cabret.  Wonderstruck is not at all related to The Invention of Hugo Cabret, but it is a novel in pictures and words like Hugo.

     Ben is a ten-year-old who has no parents.  His mother died in a car crash and he never knew his father.  One night Ben went into his mother's old room and found a bookmark that may lead him to his father.  Ben was born with one sea ear, and when he calls the number on the bookmark lightning strikes and leaves Ben completely deaf.

     There is another story in the book, but it is completely in pictures.  This story is about a young girl named Rose, who turns out to be Ben's grandmother.That may sound crazy, but the words and pictures are in different time periods.  Ben's story is set in 1977 and Rose's story is set in 1927.  That is one of my favorite things about this book.  I really enjoyed how it turned out that Rose was Ben's grandmother.  I thought Wonderstruck was great and also tragic.

To find out more visit the Wonderstruck website. There is information about the author and illustrator, pictures from the book, and even a cool video.

http://www.wonderstruckthebook.com

Scholastic also has a page for Wonderstruck!

http://www.scholastic.com/wonderstruck/

Marvelous Middle-Grade Monday

Welcome to Marvelous Middle-Grade Monday at A Monster Ate My Book Report!

This is a great meme started by Ms. Shannon Messenger, author of her own Middle-Grade Book, Keeper of the Lost Cities.  There are lots of fantastic bloggers out their who are excited to tell you all about Middle-Grade Books, so make sure you check out Ms. Shannon's Blog to get all the links.

http://ramblingsofawannabescribe.blogspot.com/

Thanks,

Marsh and Emiline

     In The Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznick, there is a boy named hugo whose father died in a fire in a museum.  In the ruins sat an automaton.  Hugo believes it might save his life if he can fix it.  He things that it is a machine that can draw or write. Eventually, Hugo succeeds at fixing it and makes a new friend, too.

     The automaton drew a picture that had his new friend's godfather's signature at the bottom , so Hugo and his friend, Isabelle, try to figure out why it is there.  Will they succeed in their quest?  Find out in The Invention of Hugo Cabret.

     Selznick tells this story with beautiful pictures and words.  They pictures are kind of like a flipbook. They use motion to show what's going on in the story.  The words are also a big part of the story.  They show the dialogue and give great descriptions.

     I liked Hugo's natural talent with tinkering and I liked seeing him do it in the pictures.  I think you should read Hugo if you have a big imagination or think you would make a good engineer.  

~Emiline

Visit this website to find out more about this amazing book:

http://www.theinventionofhugocabret.com/index.htm