![]() ![]() Albert Nightingale's strange, beautiful house, with its mysterious portraits and ghostly presences, captivates Joseph and leads him on a search for clues about the house, his family, and the past.A gripping adventure and an intriguing invitation to decipher how the two stories connect, The Marvels is a loving tribute to the power of story from an artist at the vanguard of creative innovation. ![]() ![]() For anyone who has been to Disneyland in. He’s also the author and illustrator of Wonderstruck, which was made into a movie by Todd Haynes with a screenplay by Brian. A boy named Leo finds himself in the arms of an angel flying high over London. Kaleidoscope, a novel in short stories, was called a 'lockdown masterpiece' by the New York Times, and his newest book Big Tree, inspired by an idea from Steven Spielberg, will be published April 4th. There, his family flourishes for generations as brilliant actors until 1900, when young Leontes Marvel is banished from the stage.Nearly a century later, runaway Joseph Jervis seeks refuge with an uncle in London. This is from a dream sequence at the end of part one of The Marvels. After surviving a shipwreck, he finds work in a London theatre. **A breathtaking new voyage from Caldecott Medalist Brian Selznick.**Two stand-alone stories-the first in nearly 400 pages of continuous pictures, the second in prose-create a beguiling narrative puzzle.The journey begins at sea in 1766, with a boy named Billy Marvel. Don't miss Selznick's other novels in words and pictures, The Invention of Hugo Cabret and Wonderstruck, which together with The Marvels, form an extraordinary thematic trilogy! ![]()
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