EarlyWord has the news that Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick is being turned into a film. Celebrated director Todd Haynes is looking to direct and are looking at casting.
This would be the second of Selznick’s novels to be made into a film, following Hugo, based on Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which was directed by Martin Scorsese.
Oliver Jeffers has become only the third person to ever win both the Children’s Books Ireland Book of the Year and their Children’s Choice Award for the same book. Jeffers took both awards for his Once Upon an Alphabet.
Here are the other CBI Awards:
Honour Award for Illustration
Chris Haughton for Shh! We Have a Plan
Honour Award for Fiction
Áine Ní Ghlinn for Daideo
Judges’ Special Award
Gabriel Rosenstock and Brian Fitzgerald for Haiku Más é do thoil é!
Eilís Dillon Award for a first children’s book:
Louise O’Neill for Only Ever Yours
Waking Brain Cells 