![]() ![]() He began illustrating other authors’ works when an editor saw The Houdini Box and asked him to illustrate Pam Conrad’s book Doll Face Has a Party (1994). Selznick wrote and illustrated The Houdini Box (1991), based on a project he did in college, while working at the bookstore. He eventually decided he wanted to work on children’s books himself. ![]() ![]() He painted the store’s windows for events and worked for a future book editor. Instead, Selznick began to travel and ended up working in a children’s book store in New York, New York. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design and after graduating planned to design sets for theater shows. In high school it was suggested that he become a children’s book illustrator, but he rejected the idea. ![]() Selznick was born on July 14, 1966, in East Brunswick, New Jersey. The Academy Award-winning movie Hugo (2011) was based on the book. The innovative book consists of more than 500 pages and combines elements of drawing, film, and writing to tell the fictional story of a French orphan boy in Paris in the early 1930s who becomes obsessed with fixing a robot his father had found. Once best known for his illustrations for other authors’ books, Brian Selznick was awarded the 2008 Caldecott Medal for his young-adult novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007). ![]()
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