![]() This magical clockwork man is Hugo's raison d'etre. He needs their clockwork parts to help him mend the automaton that his father had been working on before he died. Hugo steals toys from the old man's booth on the station concourse. When his uncle disappears, Hugo is left to take care of the clocks alone. His father died in a fire and he had gone to live with his uncle, who maintains the many clocks in the station. Hugo Cabret is a little boy living in a garret in a Parisian railway station in the 1930s. ![]() ![]() Beautiful sequential pencil sketch artwork, a fascinating history of early movies and a rather cool mystery story combine to make a book they'll return to again and again. Summary: A book that really stands out from the crowd. ![]()
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