Author: Brian Selznick
Publisher: Scholastic
Publication Year: 2007
Language: English
Format: Hardback
Pages: 534
Half sketches create a story in pictures too, relevant history. Real last-century French pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès collected mechanical robot-like automata, and, impoverished, worked at a toy booth in a Paris railway station. Here, orphan Hugo fixes his late father's automata, and meets Méliès through his god-daughter Isabelle.