This technique is at the heart of the book, and, take it from me, this book has heart. It is a visual tour de force, part stop frame animation, part picture book. Wolves bound towards the reader out of dark snowy wastes, culminating in an extreme close up of a wolf's eye. The opening sequence of pages is stunning. I gulped back my rising envy and began to read. Several Minnesotan forests have been sacrificed to furnish an initial print run of half a million copies.
No expense has been spared, and not just in the design.
The printing and design are gorgeous, the paper of the highest quality, and the heft of the book, a Selznick trademark, would shame a Russian novel. Everything about this book begs you to love it. So it was with a cynical and steely eye that would have done my daughter proud, that I opened my review copy of Wonderstruck and prepared myself to be anything but.
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