I Hope The Snow Covers

Ben Remembered Reading About Curators In "wonderstruck", And Thought About What Id Meant To Curate Your Own Life, As His Dad Had Done Here. What Would It Be Like To Pick And Choose The Objects And Stories That Would Go In Your Own Cabinet? How Would Ben Curate His Own Life? And Then, Thinking About His Museum Box, And His House, And His Books, And The Secret Room, He Realized He'd Already Begun Doing It. Maybe, Thought Ben, We Are All Cabinets Of Wonders.

The Idea Of Going To The Movies Made Hugo Remember Something Father Had Once Told Him About Going To The Movies When He Was Just A Boy, When The Movies Were New. Hugo's Father Had Stepped Into A Dark Room, And On A White Screen He Had Seen A Rocket Fly Right Into The Eye Of The Man In The Moon. Father Said He Had Never Experienced Anything Like It. It Had Been Like Seeing His Dreams In The Middle Of The Day.

But I'm A Fairly Mechanical Worker - I Tend Not To Think About Themes So Much As Plot. I Want To Get The Feeling Right. If It's Moving Through Tunnels, I Ask Myself, What Is It Like To Move Through Tunnels?

Since I Spend Such A Long Time Making Each Book, I Only Choose Books That I'm Really Interested In And That I Really Love.

I Love Being An Illustrator Because I Get To Read Really Great Stories, Work With Amazing People, Travel And See Places I Never Would've Seen. And I Get To Draw All The Time.