The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures

New York: Scholastic Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. First Edition. Hardcover. 0439813786 . [nice clean attractive copy, just the slightest bumping at base of spine and a teeny-tiny dent in bottom edge of front cover; jacket shows very slight wear at spine ends, tiny tear at bottom of spine]. Caldecott Award-winning illustrated tale -- do we call this a semi-graphic novel? -- about a young orphan living secretly in the remote corners of a Paris railway station, and how his life intersects with the great French filmmaker Georges Méliès. Adapted into the multiple-Oscar-nominated 2011 film HUGO by director Martin Scorsese. . (Inventory #: 15570)