What I Read -- Wonderstruck

Wonderstruck is Brian Selznick's second book.  His first, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, won the Caldecott Medal, the highest honor bestowed on illustrated children's books.  I never read Hugo Cabret, though it was just made into a movie which has gotten laudatory reviews.

While Wonderstruck is classed as a book for kids, it does contain some advanced subject matter.  It's the story of a deaf boy who runs away from his aunt's house in Minnesota after his mom's death.  He heads for New York City, on a search for the father he never knew.

Interspersed with the text containing the story of the boy is a story about a girl, and it's told in pictures.  We don't know who this girl is, or how her story ties in with the boy's.

As you near the end of the book, the stories begin to converge, and I couldn't stop reading until I was finished.