Kaleidoscope

'[Selznick is] a postmodern hero of middle-gradechildren’s fiction... Those who revel in puzzles, philosophicalconundrums and musings on transience, time and grief will adorethis challenging read’  TheTimes‘The most perfect feat of storytelling’Scott Evans, The Reader Teacher‘It has touched me in a way I can’t express…Breath-taking’ Ceridwen Eccles,primary teacher and blogger at Teacher GlitterA ship. A garden. A library.In Kaleidoscope, the incomparable Brian Selznickpresents the story of two people bound to each other throughtime and space, memory and dreams. At the centre of their relationship is a mystery about the natureof grief and love which will look different to each reader. Kaleidoscope is a feat of storytelling that illuminateshow even the wildest tales can help us in the hardest times.Brian Selznick's first book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret,was the winner of the esteemed Caldecott Medal,the first novel to do so, as the Caldecott Medal is for picturebooksReleased as a live-action film Hugo in2011, directed by Martin Scorsase and starringAsa Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, Jude Law, Sacha Baron Cohen, RichardGriffiths, Ray Winstone, and Christopher Lee.Brian Selznick's second book, Wonderstruck, was alsomade into a feature film, starring Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams