Wonderstruck By Brian Selznck

This is a Big Spoiler Alert! This story starts by describing two different people in two different times, but in the end, the two people meet! This is also a very different story, instead of just words, it also has big pictures, that also describe one part of the story!



This is who it all goes... Ben, is deaf in one year. He lives with his Aunt and Uncle, but one day he sees a light on in the house he lived in before his mother died. When he goes and investigates, his cousin is up in his mothers room dancing to music in his mothers clothes and smoking. The cousin stops, and puts everything back but mentions a rainy day fund in the closet. While looking through his mothers stuff he finds a phone number, that could be his fathers. Just outside, the wind is blowing like crazy and lightning begins to strike. Ben dials the number and just as he puts the phone to his ear, he blacks out.

At the same time in the book there is a little girl that looks to be in the 50's. She ends up to be the daughter of a famous actress. Her mother doesn't like her because she is deaf. But she finds her older brother and eventually goes to live with him.

When Ben wakes up, he finds out that he is now deaf in both ears. So he goes and takes the rainy day fund from his mothers house travels to New York, where is father may live. HERE IS ANOTHER SPOILER ALERT!!! (His father died.) He goes to a museum that he could have worked at. He doesn't find his father, but he finds a good friend, at least he thinks, that will help him to find his father.

Just like every story, there is a fight, and a revelation that always occurs. He doesn't find his father, but he finds some one just as important! The girl in the pictures! :)

Brian Selznick did an incredible job on this book. He is also the author of The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which was also a great book, though very easy to read. Wonder Struck was the first book that I had read by this author, and it was a great experience. My favorite part was the pictures. Each one drawn to perfection! It was also so inviting as a book, and it was fun to make a hypothesis about what was going to happen next. Though switching from pictures to words confused me at first, by the end it was easier to understand! And I most definitely could not put this book down! An "A" to this book I say!!