Hugo has been stealing windup toys from the old man's booth. Along the way, readers also meet a young girl named Isabelle and her godfather, a gruff old man who runs a small toy booth in the train station. The book tells the story of Hugo Cabret, an orphan who lives in a Paris train station.
Selznick, a well-known illustrator, has employed an experimental form in Hugo Cabret: He says the pictures pick up where the prose leaves off - and propel the story forward. In fact, finely detailed pencil drawings - unaccompanied by text - fill more than half the book's 500-plus pages. The opening pages of the children's book don't have any words, just black-and-white drawings on a black page. The beginning of the story called The Invention of Hugo Cabret unfurls like a miniature silent film - even though it is a book, written and illustrated by Brian Selznick. This version is from the Internet Archive.
Note: The original version of 'A Trip to the Moon' did not have a soundtrack or narration.
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