Wonderstruck / Brian Selznick / 629 pages

Selznick, trailblazing author/illustrator of The Invention of Hugo Cabret, does it again in Wonderstruck, his newest book that uses images (460 pages of illustrations) and text to tell the story. This time around, he creates two plotlines one taking placing in Hoboken, NJ in 1927 involving a deaf girl named Rose and one taking place in 1977 in Gunflint, MN involving a partially deaf 12 year old boy Ben. Both characters set off on a desperate quest that brings their lives together in an awesome and heart wrenching conclusion. You really must read this book and be wonderstruck. If we are all really curators of our own lives, you will want to include Wonderstruck in your Cabinet of Wonders.