Hugo’s uncle, a horologist but also a drunk, shows him how to care for the clocks in the station. Hugo, the orphaned son of a master horologist (clockmaker), is taken in by his uncle, the clock-keeper at the Paris train station, after his father perishes in a fire at the museum where he had been working on fixing an automaton. The story of Hugo, an orphan who lives in the walls of the Paris train station, is told via a skillful combination of narrative and illustration that evoke the flip books of my youth. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick is one of those books. It’s not often a book comes along that blends elements of the novel, the picture book, and the graphic novel all in one…and it works.
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