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>>Hi. I'm Brian Selznick and this is Wonderstruck.
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Wonderstruck is about two kids who are trying
to find the place they belong in the world.
After The Invention of Hugo Cabret, I wanted to take what I learned
from making that book and make a new book.
And I started thinking about what else I could do to tell a story with pictures,
and I thought it might be interesting to try to tell two different stories:
One story takes place in 1977 and it's told with text,
with words, like a regular book.
The other story takes place 50 years earlier, 1927,
and that story is told in pictures.
So these two stories weave back and forth until they come together
to create one single narrative.
I really love working with a great amount of detail. I love doing research.
I love making sure that every inch of the drawing has a reason to exist.
It's very immersive to be inside the time period, having done all this research.
One of the things I love most about writing and illustrating, is simply telling a story
about characters that you care about and having it unfold in a surprising,
interesting, hopefully exciting way.
I write about things I love. In Wonderstruck I write about museums,
and I write about deaf culture, and I write about New York in 1927 and 1977.
I did as much research as I possibly could on all of those things,
and I learned so much, and I loved so much of what I discovered.
And so, what I hope for the reader, is that when they read this book,
when they open this book and see the pictures and read the story and watch how they come together,
that the love I felt for all of these different elements and these characters comes through for them.
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