Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What's a nice Jewish boy from Central Jersey doing meeting the pope? It sounds like the start of an old joke, right? But it’s true ...

In early 2021, author Brian Selznick roamed the streets of Rome, which were unusually vacant amid the COVID-19 pandemic. His husband, UC San Diego communication professor David Serlin, had won the ...

Larger-than-life literary characters jump off the pages of Brian Selznick's works − famed boy wizard Harry Potter, his own Caldecott Medal-winning Hugo Cabret. But if you know where to look, you'll ...

Brian Selznick took a job at a children's book store decades ago to better understand how they're written. Today, the award-winning author/illustrator behind books such as "The Invention of Hugo ...

While most of the almost 1,000 indie booksellers attending Winter Institute 2025 in Denver own or work at general bookstores, and the programming at the annual gathering hosted by the American ...

Bookworm Brian Selznick The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Scholastic Press) The design and composition of this five hundred page picture book took Brian Selznick many years' work. Here, we talk about the ...

Two boys meet, name one other, and fall in love in an extraordinary illustrated novel set in 1986 Rome—a dreamy YA debut from Selznick (Big Tree). An initially unnamed white-cued American 16-year-old ...

Brian Selznick, the creator of “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” gives WSJ a behind-the-scenes look at the process he used to make the stunning trailer for his new book, "The Marvels." ...

The meeting is part of a special audience with about 36 Hollywood talents to deepen dialogue with the world of cinema. Other notable attendees include Cate Blanchett, Spike Lee, Chris Pine, and George ...