The dual text/illustration format is not a gimmick when used to tell the right stories the combination provides an emotional experience that neither the words nor the illustrations could achieve on their own.- Tim Wadham, St. The way that the stories of Ben and Rose echo one another, and then finally connect, is a thing of wonder to behold. It is there that they find the connections they are seeking. Both Ben and Rose escape to New York and are drawn to the American Museum of Natural History. She lives in a room that feels more like a prison, where she keeps a scrapbook of her silent-film star mother and builds models of New York City. Parallel to Ben’s story, and told through illustrations, is the story of Rose, a deaf child who lives in Hoboken, NJ, in 1927, with her overbearing father. He runs away from his aunt and uncle and goes in search of his father. Disaster ensues when Ben is struck by lightning and loses the hearing in his one good ear.
His mother has just died, and he doesn’t know the whereabouts of his father. The first, taking place in 1977, is told through words. Using the format he so brilliantly introduced in The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Scholastic, 2007), Selznick tells two parallel stories.
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