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Run Away With Me Synopsis
From #1 New York Times bestselling author/illustrator Brian Selznick, a profoundly romantic YA novel about two boys finding each other and falling in love over one summer in Rome.
"I'm going to call you Danny. What are you going to name me?" "Angelo."
Danny is spending his sixteenth summer in Rome. As his mother spends the day at work in a mysterious museum, he wanders the ancient sites and streets. Soon after his arrival, he encounters a shadow ... who becomes a voice ... who becomes a boy his age. Angelo.
Soon Danny and Angelo are spending as much time as they can together, piecing together stories of the city while only gradually letting their own histories be shared. Attraction leads to affection, and affection leads to both an intimate closeness and a profound fear of what happens next. Danny has never really had a home, or known the love of another boy. Angelo seems to have more experience ... but he also has secrets just out of Danny's reach.
Run Away With Me is a stunning creation, weaving words and illustration to tell the story of a transformative love over the course of one Roman summer.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781339035529 |
| Publication date: |
1st April 2025 |
| Author: |
Brian Selznick |
| Illustrator: |
Brian Selznick |
| Publisher: |
Scholastic an imprint of Scholastic Inc |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Pagination: |
320 pages |
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About Brian Selznick
Caldecott Honour–winning illustrator and New York Times bestselling author Brian Selznick graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with the intention of becoming a set designer for the theatre. However, after spending three years selling books and designing window displays for a children’s bookstore in Manhattan, he was inspired to create children’s books of his own. His books have received many awards and distinctions, including a Caldecott Honour for The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins and a Robert F. Sibert Honour for When Marian Sang.
Brian travels extensively to research his books. He spent six months in Washington, D.C., for Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride, he travelled to England for The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins, and he visited Walt Whitman’s childhood home in West Hills, New York, for Walt Whitman: Words for America. Brian visited the city of Paris three times to research The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Brian’s most recent book is Wonderstruck.
Brian lives in Brooklyn, New York, and San Diego, California.
Brian on creating his groundbreaking book, The Invention of Hugo
Cabret which combines elements of picture book, graphic novel, and film: "Several years ago, I read a
review of a book called Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest
for Mechanical Life by Gaby Wood. The review mentioned
the true story of a collection of elaborate mechanical windup figures
(known as automata), which had once been owned and loved by a great
French film director named George Méliès. These amazing machines were
eventually donated by Méliès to a museum in Paris, but the collection
was neglected in a damp attic and eventually had to be thrown away. I
imagined a boy finding these broken, rusted machines, and thus Hugo and
his story were born."
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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 picture books Released as a live-action film Hugo in 2011, directed by Martin Scorsase and starring Asa Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, Jude Law, Sacha Baron Cohen, Richard Griffiths, Ray Winstone, and Christopher Lee. Brian Selznick's second book, Wonderstruck, was also made into a feature film, starring Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams.
