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They want to make their dinners disappear and their parents vanish.

Children want to be able to escape from their rooms when they are sent there for being bad. I love how Brian was able to capture the connection between children and magic:Įveryone was wonderstruck by Houdini, but children were especially delighted. I have fallen in love with Selznick’s writing ever since The Invention of Hugo Cabret which literally cried out for me as I was running my hands through our library’s bookshelves two years back. I knew of course that I had to borrow The Houdini Box which is a mix of historical fiction, a little boy’s wide-eyed wonder over magic, and a legendary box filled with secrets – not to mention Selznick’s first published book.Īs the reader remembers Harry Houdini (Eric Weiss in his private life) and his exploits across the globe, Selznick also introduces a new character, a special boy named Victor – who, like boys all around the world, have a special (bordering-on-the-morbid) fascination with magic and escapology. With that introduction, it seems pretty obvious that my sharing is once again another magically-themed book, this one by an absolute favorite, the genius Brian Selznick and his “The Houdini Box.”įact, Fiction, and Magic.

Hopefully, we can address that tiny technicality (a blogging glitch, if you may) in the coming weeks. Sadly, since both are beyond busy at the moment, we are gaining more headway with the magical theme. When we originally conceptualized our Dahl and Magical theme, the tacit agreement was that I’d most likely take on the magical theme while my two lovely ladies (Fats and Iphigene) would deal with Dahl. Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC).Literary Voyage Around The World Reading Challenge 2018.#WomenReadWomen2019 (A Year Of Women Reading Women) Reading Progress.#ReadIntl2020 (Year Of International Literature) Reading Progress.#DecolonizeBookshelves2022 Reading Progress.#DecolonizeReading2023 Reading Progress.