Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Wonder Struck
I have just finished reading the book Wonder Struck by Brain Selznic. This is a fantastic book using both pictures and words to describe the story. At the start of this book, I was very confused because in the pictures there was a story and in the pages with writing on them, there was a whole other story. The main Character of this story is Ben, who is deaf in one ear, doesn't know who his father is and his mother had just passed away at the start of the book. Later in the book, Ben gets struck by lightning and become deaf completely. After he is in the hospital and leaves to find his father in New York. The pictures, however, tell a whole different story. This part of the story is about a girl who is also deaf, and her mom is a famous actor, who never see's her daughter. In the end, the two characters meet, in both pictures and words and the little girl turns out to be Ben's grandmother. Overall, I think that this book is a great read although it's difficulty is rather easy, this book is a great quick read and i strongly recommend it to others.
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Wow! This book sounds really good! I have never heard of a book that is a story through pictures and word that sounds really interesting also I think that it's super unusual to have a book with two completely different stories but in the end they become one. That sounds amazing! I would love to know how many pages are in this book and if it's a slow or quick read! Overall, sounds like a great book and would love to read sometime in the future.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like a really good book! Is the story like The Invention of Hugo Cabret in any way? I like how the author is very original in the way that he uses both pictures and words to convey stories. It's cool how they both center around characters who are deaf, and it sounds like that would be interesting to read or see a story like that because there are really no deaf protagonists. Is the story from the boy's point of view and writing style really different from before he was struck by lightning and after? It sounds like a really great book. It sounds like a great book! I'd love to read it soon!
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