The Invention of Hugo Cabret (book review)

Last Wednesday, Jaime Burns and I were given the opportunity by Mr Aitken to get a few books that we could read over the Summer. We managed to get, between the two of us, around 24 books. I got

• Wuthering Heights,
•  Jane Eyre,
•  Tale of Two Cites
• Little Women
• Heidi
•  Pride and Prejudice
•  The invention of Hugo Cabret 
• Two NZ Short Story books 
• The Outsiders
• Animal Farm
• 1984
•  Go ask Alice

 Out of the thirteen books that I managed to get I have read 3 and am in the process of reading Animal Farm by George Orwell.

Jaime has done book reviews on the books that she has read so far and I thought that that was a good idea as we get to share our views of the book on our blogs and other readers can comment and tell us what they thought of the book that we wrote a review on. Even though the books are meant to be for Summer reading, I'm probably going to have to go back and get some more as they might all have been read by then.

The first book that I read was The Invention of Hugo Cabret.

WHAT THE BOOK IS ABOUT 

This book was based around the orphan, Hugo, who went to live with his Uncle at the train station and he was all by himself after his uncle didn't come back on night and he didn't mind this all. His job is to oil and maintain the clocks like his uncle showed him, but more than that, his job is to protect the automaton that his father had fixed and kept.  But then his life becomes intertwined with a girl and the man that runs the toy booth after the man takes Hugo's fathers book. his life and secrets are put in jeopardy and he has to find a way to keep himself and the automaton safe after the girl-Isabella- finds out his hiding place and his secrets. 

WHAT MY THOUGHT OF THIS BOOKS ARE 

I did enjoy the book and it had a great story behind it. The way it was told, with around 150 pages of word and the rest of the book being made out of pictures, it gave you an idea of where Hugo lived, what he looked like and what the train station looked like. The pictures are drawn with such detail and look amazing in real life. 

During the book, I did get twisted up a little bit and didn't quite get what was happening but I got there in the end and it was a really good story of friendship and trust.  I enjoyed this book and enjoyed the picture that he had drawn to go along with the words that he had written. 

I recommend this book to read and I find that id you are into adventure and mystery you would enjoy this quite a bit. Age level would be any as you can really get into it at any age. 

The pictures on the right are pictures that are in the book. The very top on is of Georges sitting at this toy booth looking sad. And the bottom one is of Etienne, the boy that worked at the movie theatre before he go fired. Jaime Burns