The Invention Of Hugo Cabret

Hugo is a boy who loves machinery. He and his father both had a secret up in the attic of the museum that Hugo's father worked at. It was called an automaton, which is a machine that magicians used to make people think that by magic words they made the automaton write messages or draw pictures. By using a special key that they put into the back and turned it and after a few seconds it started to either draw a picture or write a note. The automaton in this book was one that drew the picture of a trip to the moon which had a moon man inside of it which gave the moon a face that one day a rocket ship went right into its eye. After his dad died in a fire, Hugo tried to steal toy parts that might fit into the spaces where the automaton was missing pieces. A girl named Isabelle had the right key for this automaton which was heart shaped and it belonged to her godmother. She lived with her godmother and godfather because her parents died in a car crash. She stole the key from her godmother's drawer. When Hugo got caught stealing toys from the toy booth the owner took his father's secret notebook so Hugo followed him to his home and it turned out that he was Isabelle's godfather. His name was Papa Georges. When Hugo fixed the automaton the last thing he needed was the key on Isabelle's neck. So one day he stole the key from Isabelle, put it into the automaton, and he turned it and watched it do what it was going to do. He thought his father had a message in it for him but instead it drew a picture of a trip to the moon. But when the automaton finished the drawing, he wasn't done. He had to write the signature. The signature was Georges Meiles, which is Papa Georges, who used to be a magician. But he was forced to stop being a magician and give a shoe company all his tapes and that company burned all of them and made them into shoe heels. In this book, Papa Georges hates hearing shoes clicking because he remembers that the shoe heels are made out of his old movies. In the end, Hugo becomes part of that family and that is good.

This is the best book I have ever read. My favorite person was Hugo because was a good builder. I also like Hugo because he grew up to be a magician. Hugo was very creative. I also like the illustrations because they have a lot of detail.