Remy Charlip is a wonderful writer and illustrator of children’s books. He is also a dancer and a choreographer. When I was a kid, several of his books were favorites of mine, including Fortunately, Thirteen, and Handtalk: An ABC of Finger Spelling & Sign Language.

I was lucky enough to become friends with Remy a few years ago, and while I was working on The Invention of Hugo Cabret I realized that Remy looks a lot like Georges Méliès! I asked Remy if he would pose as Georges Méliès in my book, and he said yes. So all the pictures of Georges Méliès in The Invention of Hugo Cabret are really drawings of Remy Charlip.

Click here for Remy Charlip's essay A Page is a Door, about the magic of page-turns, which was quoted in Brian Selznick's Caldecott speech.

Click here for an appreciation of Remy Charlip

Click here for a bibliography of Remy Charlip’s books.

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