The Invention of Hugo Cabret

The Hunger Games is not Scholastic's only book-turned-movie. Another Scholastic book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret written and illustrated by Brian Selznick, inspired Martin Scorsese to direct a 3D film by the same name.

Hugo opened in theaters nationwide Wednesday and so far it's getting great reviews!

Scholastic sent Kid Reporter Grace McManus (a member of Scholastic News' Kids Press Corps) to the New York red-carpet premiere on Monday where she interviewed several of the film's stars (including main characters Asa Butterfield and Chloe Grace Moretz), as well as the screenwriter and the author, Selznick.

Check out her interview below...

Pretty cool, huh?

In non-movie-related news, The Invention of Hugo Cabret has a pretty cool website, too. One of my favorite features is the About Hugo Cabret section, which lets readers see the process Selznick went though as he wrote the book. Did you know that when Selznick is creating a character, he makes it up in his head and then finds someone in real life who looks like his imaginary version? He found the boy behind Hugo while performing a puppet show at the Museum of Natural History in New York City and he found the girl who posed as Isabelle at a pizza shop in Brooklyn. He asked them (and their parents) if they would come to his house, get into costume, and then pose for the drawings Selznick would do for the book!

via Hugo models