Sneaking into his old house, Ben (Oakes Fegley) is the victim of a bizarre accident that takes away his hearing in an instant. He also comes across a book called “Wonderstruck” about cabinets ...

By David Rooney Chief Film Critic Ben lives with his aunt and uncle and two cousins, but he returns often to the house on Gunflint ... s pencil drawings in the book. Rose’s section also is ...

Wonderstruck, gorgeous as it is ... Love, Danny.” That’s when his house is struck by lightning, leaving Ben deaf but determined to strike out for Manhattan and find the man that might be ...

Wonderstruck is both a novel and a picture book, a form Selznick first experimented with in The Invention of Hugo Cabret, when he had the idea of telling a story in much the same way that film does.

Empire Online reports that Haynes plans to adapt the children’s book Wonderstruck ... Rose, who is locked in a house in 1927 New Jersey, also escapes to New York to see her idol, film actress ...

“Wonderstruck” shows the kind of satisfaction that young neoclassicists like Rose and Ben and himself, museumgoers and cinémathèque-frequenters and repertory-house denizens and antiquarian ...

For Brian Selznick, the seed for his new book, "Wonderstruck," came from two unexpected places: puppets and television. It was after the success of his first book, "The Invention of Hugo Cabret ...

“Without a little magic in our lives, without a place for the unexpected and the wondrous, life is dull and drab,” writes Helen De Cruz in “Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We ...

Writing and drawing his books, he says,... 'Wonderstruck': A Novel Approach To Picture Books It's not often that a writer can illustrate his own books, but Brian Selznick is that rare find.