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Brian Selznick

Brian Selznick

Brian Selznick

Brian Selznick is the author and illustrator of the bestselling The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which was awarded the Caldecott Medal and was a National Book Award finalist. He is also the illustrator of many books for children, including Frindle and Lunch Money by Andrew Clements, as well as the Doll People trilogy by Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin, and The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins by Barbara Kerley, which was a Caldecott Honor Book. Mr. Selznick divides his time between Brooklyn, New York, and San Diego, California.

The Janitor's Boy is now available in eBook
May 08, 2012
The Janitor's Boy will be released on May 08, 2012 in eBook
May 08, 2012
Lunch Money will be released on April 17, 2012 in eBook
Apr 17, 2012
Lunch Money is now available in eBook
Apr 17, 2012
Lost and Found is now available in Trade Paperback
May 18, 2010
Lost and Found will be released on May 18, 2010 in Trade Paperback
Mar 18, 2010
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Extra Credit has won an award
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Extra Credit has won an award
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No Talking has won an award
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Lost and Found has won an award
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Lost and Found has won an award
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Chicago Sun-Times, May 11, 2012
...NEW YORK — Maurice Sendak’s closest friends gathered in his hospital room — playwright Tony Kushner, authors Brian Selznick and Gregory Maguire. Kushner brought jellybeans, while Maguire placed a picture of Lewis Carroll on the table beside...
PublishersWeekly.com, May 11, 2012
...the award for Author of the Year. Jack Gantos handing Jeff Kinney his award. Illustrator of the Year Brian Selznick, most recently the author/illustrator of 'Wonderstruck' (Scholastic Press). “I got two!” (Super Bowl victories, that is.) 2012 Impact...
Hollywood Reporter, May 10, 2012
...Notable Deaths of 2012 On that day, Maguire gathered with playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America) and author Brian Selznick (The Invention of Hugo Cabret) around the bed of the unconscious Sendak to toast his life. The men, all longstanding friends...
School Library Journal, May 10, 2012
...you to his wife (also inadvertently providing a good callback for the rest of the evening . . . well played, Brian Selznick and Justin Tuck).  Also, the aforementioned Kate Beaton did a drawing to go along with Justin Tuck.  I like this pairing:...
WA Today, May 10, 2012
...fair measure, a standard-setting masterpiece while its story, based on the novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick, is a passionate ode to cinema designed - perhaps too specifically - for film lovers. The film might have tanked at the box...
TravelConnect.in, May 9, 2012
...Maurice Sendak's closest friends gathered in his hospital room-playwright Tony Kushner, the author Brian Selznick and Gregory Maguire. Kushner take jelly beans, and Maguire Lewis Carroll's photographs in the table Sendak the bed beside me cheap beats by...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 3, 2012
...director Martin Scorsese celebrates the history and magic of film itself. He has a perfect vehicle in author-artist Brian Selznick's 2007 book, "The Invention of Hugo Cabret," whose elaborately detailed illustrations served as a ready-made storyboard for...
Yahoo! News, March 2, 2012
...escape the Nazis, he refused to leave his children behind and perished with them in the camps. — Brian Selznick has written and illustrated several award-winning children's books, including The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which inspired the...
The Week Magazine, March 2, 2012
...Is GCB the next Desperate Housewives? Film+TV Does The Lorax do Dr. Seuss justice? Books Brian Selznick's 6 favorite children's books Lifestyle The week's best photojournalism Film+TV Tim Burton's Frankenweenie trailer: Is the classic story still 'too...
The Week Magazine, March 2, 2012
...Is GCB the next Desperate Housewives? Film+TV Does The Lorax do Dr. Seuss justice? Books Brian Selznick's 6 favorite children's books Lifestyle The week's best photojournalism Film+TV Tim Burton's Frankenweenie trailer: Is the classic story still 'too...
The Week Magazine, March 2, 2012
...Is GCB the next Desperate Housewives? Film+TV Does The Lorax do Dr. Seuss justice? Books Brian Selznick's 6 favorite children's books Lifestyle The week's best photojournalism Film+TV Tim Burton's Frankenweenie trailer: Is the classic story still 'too...
The Week Magazine, March 2, 2012
...Is GCB the next Desperate Housewives? Film+TV Does The Lorax do Dr. Seuss justice? Books Brian Selznick's 6 favorite children's books Lifestyle The week's best photojournalism Film+TV Tim Burton's Frankenweenie trailer: Is the classic story still 'too...
Zambia Daily Mail, March 2, 2012
...high quality as a great piece of entertainment. Hugo is a 2011 3D adventure drama film based on Brian Selznick’s novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret, about a boy who lives alone in a Paris railway station and the enigmatic owner of a toy shop there. ...