I just love the no-longer-new 2007 book The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Read it, please! It's a thick heavy graphic novel featuring artwork reminiscent of Chris Van Allsburg. The story is both very inventive and based on historical fact. There is fictional Hugo, living alone in the walls of a Paris train station, winding twenty-seven clocks every day. Why is he there and how does he live? Who is the mysterious old man in the toy booth? Georges Melies - the old man - is based on historical fact. So really you have is a nice historical-graphic-novel. What I love is how author Brian Selznick morphs from pages of his exquisite narrative drawings to pages of storytelling text. You barely notice the transition from one medium to the other. For this visual feast to become an audiobook would take vast amounts of skilled description. Oh, and don't miss the flash player presentation of the book on their website.
