Books to Movies: From "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" to "Hugo"

Last night I saw the trailer for "Hugo" (release date November 23, 2011) and felt the same sense of wonder as when I read the book upon which the movie is based.  

"The Invention of Hugo Cabret" (ages 9+) by Brian Selznick is about a twelve-year-old orphan named Hugo, who secretly lives in a Paris train station.  Shortly before he died, Hugo's father showed him the broken clockwork man he found in the museum where he worked.  With his father's notebooks to guide him, Hugo hopes to fix the automaton and discover its secrets.  However, things get complicated when a local toymaker catches Hugo stealing a toy mouse, and confiscates his priceless notebooks.

Selznick's striking black-and-white drawings (which won Selznick a Caldecott Medal) are as important as the words in moving the story along.   It will be interesting to see how well Martin Scorsese (director of "Hugo") will capture Selznick's vision.