Wonderstruck uses the same format as Selznick's Caldecott Award-winning book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret. In Wonderstruck the author tells two stories, one using illustrations and the other using words. Ben Wilson's story takes place in 1977 in Gunflint, MN and is told using words. His mother has just died leaving Ben parentless. He only has hearing in one ear and then disaster strikes and he loses his hearing in his good ear. He soon runs away from his aunt and uncle in search of his father.
Rose's story is told through illustrations. She is a deaf child living in Hoboken, NJ in 1927. Misunderstood Rose lives in a little room and keeps a scrapbook about her mother who is a silent film star.
Both Ben and Rose escape their desperate lives and end up in New York City where their lives intersect in an improbable way in the Museum of Natural History.
Rose's story is told through illustrations. She is a deaf child living in Hoboken, NJ in 1927. Misunderstood Rose lives in a little room and keeps a scrapbook about her mother who is a silent film star.
Both Ben and Rose escape their desperate lives and end up in New York City where their lives intersect in an improbable way in the Museum of Natural History.
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