Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick (a book I spent the better part of the last year and a half working on) was released on Tuesday, and to celebrate Scholastic threw Brian a party at the American Museum of Natural History. It was epic, to say the least. I even got to go behind-the-scenes and see 80 million-year-old fossils that were recently excavated!
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| That's the cover on the ceiling and the mass of black in the middle is a blue whale. |
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As if the release party wasn't special enough, the next day I had the rare opportunity to see a rough cut of Martin Scorsese's
Hugo (based on Brian's novel,
The Invention of Hugo Cabret) at Mr. Scorsese's office! He wasn't there, but it was still amazing to see the film with the people that made the book happen. It was a great thank-you from the Scorsese's after how hard we worked on the movie companion. (And by "hard" I mean I wasn't sleeping or eating regularly and I lost the ability to form coherent thoughts or express myself properly.)
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| Cover copyright Scholastic 2011 |
The movie is so true to Brian's work, and it was such a privilege to be there with him as he watched the movie for the first time. The trailer really doesn't do the film justice.
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| Movie poster copyright Paramount 2011 |
So, all this to say that I haven't been home to cook this week or pull myself together enough to post the amazing things I've made recently, including some out-of-this-world chicken empanadas. You'll just have to wait.
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