5/19/2023 0 Comments The Robot King by Brian Selznick![]() ![]() I could really stare at these illustrations forever. It unfolds partly in prose, and partly in beautiful, intricate pencil drawings. The story is complicated by a young girl, a mystery about old movies, a heart-shaped key, and a secret drawing. It is an old-fashioned robot that can actually write! If Hugo can repair it, he can see what message the automaton hides inside. ![]() ![]() He was restoring a battered automaton, a clockwork machine that looks like a human, who carries a secret message inside. ![]() Hugo’s father died in a museum fire, but he left a legacy for Hugo. When his uncle disappears, Hugo is afraid that if he is discovered, he will be taken to the orphanage…and he can’t bear that, because it would mean giving up on his mystery, the only thing left from his father: the automaton, a wind-up clockwork robot with a secret inside. Hugo is a twelve-year old orphan, taken in my his alcoholic uncle, who looks after the clocks in a Paris train station. Most of all, Hugo would do his best to remain invisible.” He would keep the clocks running as precisely as possible, and he’d take his uncle’s paychecks from the office when no one was looking (although he didn’t know how to cash them). “Hugo quickly realized he had to make it seem like his uncle was still around. ![]()
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