A Review By Tamsin
From the Caldecote Medal Winning creator of The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Wonder Struck once again takes its readers into an awe-inspiring world which is rich, complex and utterly wonderful. Playing with the weaving structure he developed for The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Selznick introduces us to Rose and Ben, part narration part graphic novel, children separated by 50 years, but whose worlds are strangely entwined in a truly fearful symmetry. Selznick takes that final step in uniting artwork and prose – the pictures tell the story here, rather than tag along to provide light relief on the journey.

Rose and Ben both wish their lives were different. Rose is obsessed by the life of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook, and Ben wishes to be with the father he has never known. After two apparently chance discoveries, both children set out on separate quests. The novel weaves back and forth in time as the children try to find what they are missing.