![]() “ Hugo came out of novels and picture books I’d done up to that point, and for Wonderstruck I used what I’d learned from Hugo,” he explains. Selznick, who has long been intrigued by the history of London theater and was drawn to the idea of creating a multi-generational story about an acting family, says that The Marvels also sprang from the lessons he learned from his earlier book projects. ![]() Scholastic Press will publish the novel on September 15 with a 350,000-copy first printing. The second story, told in words, centers on a boy in 1990 who runs away from school to his estranged uncle’s enigmatic London house, where he pieces together many mysteries. ![]() Relayed exclusively through pictures, the first story opens in 1766 and follows five generations of a legendary family of actors, beginning with young Billy Marvel, the lone survivor of a shipwreck. After creatively meshing words and art in his Caldecott-winning The Invention of Hugo Cabret and Wonderstruck, Brian Selznick presents a new take on his multi-dimensioned storytelling technique in The Marvels, which balances two stories. ![]()
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