Invention of Hugo Cabret

This is a book you really have to sit down to read. At 533 pages it is heavy and awkard to hold in one hand. Though it is not a graphic novel the story is told in word and drawing alternately. There are pages of pictures followed by pages of words followed by pages of pictures. The drawings which are only in shades of black, white and grey, fully evoke the enormity and the scariness of the huge railroad station where Hugo hides/lives. Most interestingly, it is based on an actual historical event - the invention of an automaton which could draw and write.
Check it out. I think the Children's Lit world will be talking about it for some time.