Product Code Database
Brian Selznick (born July 14, 1966) is an American illustrator and author best known as the writer of The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007), Wonderstruck (2011), The Marvels (2015) and Kaleidoscope (2021). He won the 2008 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration recognizing The Invention of Hugo Cabret."Caldecott Medal & Honor Books, 1938–Present" He is also known for illustrating children's books such as the covers of Scholastic's 20th-anniversary editions of the Harry Potter series.
Selznick won the 2008 Caldecott Medal from the American Library Association for the year's best-illustrated picture book, recognizing The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Its Caldecott Medal was the first for a long book, 533 pages with 284 pictures. Selznick calls it "not exactly a novel, not quite a picture book, not really a graphic novel, or a flip book or a movie, but a combination of all these things."
The Invention of Hugo Cabret follows a young orphan in Paris in the 1930s as he tries to piece together a broken automaton. The book was inspired by a passage in the book Edison’s Eve by Gaby Wood recounting the collection of automata that belonged to Georges Méliès. After his death they were thrown away by the museum that he donated them to. Selznick, a fan of Méliès and automata, envisioned a young boy stealing an automaton from the garbage. The Invention of Hugo Cabret was film adaptation as a film, Hugo, by director Martin Scorsese and released in November 2011.
Selznick cites Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are, and Remy Charlip, author of Fortunately, as strong influences on his books The Invention of Hugo Cabret and Wonderstruck.
Before winning the 2008 Caldecott Medal, Selznick had been a runner-up for the award, winning a Caldecott Honor in 2002 for The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins: An Illuminating History of Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins, Artist and Lecturer. Other awards include the Texas Bluebonnet Award, the Rhode Island Children's Book Award, and the Christopher Award. In 2025, Selznick was appointed the jury of the Progressive Cinema Competition at the 20th Rome Film Festival.
(2026). 9780439813785 ISBN 9780439813785 At the time it was "by far the longest and most involved book I’ve ever worked on." It has inspired students to action, including a fourth grade class that staged a silent film festival and a group of fifth graders who turned the book into a 30-minute modern dance.
Works
As writer
As writer and illustrator
As illustrator
"12: a novel". Library of Congress Catalog Record ( LCC). Retrieved 2013-02-20.
Summary: "Brian Selznick takes readers on an intimate tour of the movie-making process ..."-- Amazon.com.
"The Hugo movie companion : a behind the scenes look at how a beloved book...". LCC record. Retrieved 2013-02-20.
Summary: "A visually driven, widely accessible companion book to the movie adaptation of Brian Selznick's Wonderstruck"-- Provided by publisher Scholastic.
"The Wonderstruck movie scrapbook". LCC record. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
Further reading
External links
Categories: 1966 Births, Living People, 21st-century American Lgbtq People, American Children's Book Illustrators, American Children's Writers, American Gay Writers, American Historical Novelists, American Male Novelists, American Puppeteers, Artists From Middlesex County, New Jersey, Caldecott Honor Winners, Caldecott Medal Winners, East Brunswick High School Alumni, Inkpot Award Winners, Jewish American Illustrators, Lgbtq People From New Jersey, People From East Brunswick, New Jersey, Rhode Island School Of Design Alumni, Writers From Middlesex County, New Jersey, Writers Who Illustrated Their Own Writing
|
|
