Brian Selznick – American author and illustrator, best known for his “novels in pictures” The Invention of Hugo Cabret and Wonderstruck. Born in New Jersey, he studied illustration, worked in a bookstore, and discovered that books were the perfect place to unite his love for art and storytelling.
🎬 Hugo Cabret was adapted by Martin Scorsese and won Academy Awards. 📖 His books feel like watching a silent film unfold on the page. 🎨 Once dreamed of becoming a set designer but chose books instead. ✨ Credited with creating a unique hybrid form of novel and picture book. 📚 Translated into many languages and read by children and adults alike. 🖋 Inspired by silent cinema and the magic of machines. 🌍 Winner of the prestigious Caldecott Medal. 💡 Believes illustrations can say what words cannot. 🏡 Splits his time between California and Brooklyn. 😄 Jokes that his books are so thick because “his pencils don’t know when to stop.”