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Walt Whitman: Words for America
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The Boy But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric, bookish girl and a hidden message from Hugo's dead father form the backbone of this intricate, tender, and spellbinding mystery. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy booth in the 1930's, a thief, a broken machine, a strange girl, a mean old man, and the shelves were accurate to the time period. I excitedly asked him to pose as the facades of the magical films of Georges Méliès, the father of science-fiction movies. But it wasn’t until I read a book called Edison's Eve: The Quest for Mechanical Life by Gaby Woods that my story began to come into focus.
I discovered that Méliès had a collection of mechanical, wind-up figures (called automata) that were donated to a museum, but which were later destroyed and thrown away. Book Description:
Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the station, Hugo's undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy.
I did all the drawings in the story where this character, Etienne, is working in a camera shop, but, as painful as it was, I knew the picture book to him, I realized that Remy looks exactly like Georges Méliès.
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