{"description": "ORPHAN, CLOCK KEEPER, AND THIEF, twelve-year-old Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric girl and the owner of a small toy booth in the train station, Hugo\u2019s undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a stolen key, a mechanical man, and a hidden message all come together...in The Invention of Hugo Cabret.\r\n\r\nThis 526-page book is told in both words and pictures. The Invention of Hugo Cabret is not exactly a novel, and it\u2019s not quite a picture book, and it\u2019s not really a graphic novel, or a flip book, or a movie, but a combination of all these things. Each picture (there are nearly three hundred pages of pictures!) takes up an entire double page spread, and the story moves forward because you turn the pages to see the next moment unfold in front of you.\r\n([source](https://www.theinventionofhugocabret.com/about_hugo_intro.htm))", "title": "The Invention of Hugo Cabret", "covers": [10986715, 10540726, 12128154], "subject_places": ["France", "Paris (France)", "Paris"], "subjects": ["historical fiction", "Juvenile fiction", "Railroad stations", "Robots", "Fiction", "New York Times bestseller", "nyt:chapter_books=2010-03-13", "History", "Orphans", "Estaciones", "Spanish language materials", "Ferrocarriles", "Historia", "Ficci\u00f3n juvenil", "Hu\u00e9rfanos", "New York Times reviewed", "Children's fiction", "Robots, fiction", "Orphans, fiction", "Railroads, fiction", "Paris (france), history, fiction", "collectionID:caldecott00", "award:Caldecott_award", "lexile:820", "lexile_range:801-900", "age:min:8", "age:max:11", "grade:min:4", "grade:max:7", "award:N\u0113n\u0113_award", "Young Adult", "Middle Grade", "Childrens", "Children's Books", "Fantasy", "Mystery", "Historical"], "subject_people": ["Hugo Cabret", "Isabelle", "Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s", "Hugo's father", "Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s' automaton", "Uncle Claude", "Etienne", "Ren\u00e9 Tabard", "Jeanne M\u00e9li\u00e8s", "Madame Emile", "Station inspector"], "key": "/works/OL50231W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL31051A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "subject_times": ["1931"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "excerpts": [{"excerpt": "THE STORY I AM ABOUT TO SHARE with you takes place in 1931, under the roofs of Paris.", "comment": "first sentence", "author": {"key": "/people/seabelis"}}], "links": [{"title": "theinventionofhugocabret.com/index", "url": "https://www.theinventionofhugocabret.com/index.htm", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invention_of_Hugo_Cabret", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick - review", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2016/apr/08/the-invention-of-hugo-cabret-brian-selznick-review", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "New York Times review", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/books/review/Schwartz.t.html", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "identifiers": {"librarything": ["1729243"], "wikidata": ["Q140036"], "goodreads": ["527941"], "isfdb": ["1350697"]}, "genres": ["/tags/OL170T", "/tags/OL169T", "/tags/OL175T"], "latest_revision": 38, "revision": 38, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-15T13:38:43.937250"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-08-29T11:11:43.101215"}}