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  • Published: 2 October 2017
  • ISBN: 9780141378244
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $19.99

Wonder




A special film tie-in edition of the internationally bestselling book, packed with exclusive behind-the-scenes content.

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIA ROBERTS AND OWEN WILSON.

This exclusive special edition is packed with behind-the-scenes content, featuring interviews with the cast and crew, photos from on set, and introductions by director Stephen Chbosky and R. J. Palacio.

Are you ready to meet August Pullman - a boy who's desperate to blend in, but is destined to stand out.
'My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.'

Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things - eating ice cream, playing on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside. But ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids aren't stared at wherever they go.

Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life. Now, for the first time, he's being sent to a real school. All he wants is to be accepted. But can he convince his new classmates that underneath it all, he's just like them?

Astonishingly powerful, brilliantly moving and joyfully life-affirming, WONDER is a read you'll never forget.

  • Published: 2 October 2017
  • ISBN: 9780141378244
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $19.99

About the author

R J Palacio

R. J. Palacio was born and raised in New York City. She attended the High School of Art and Design and the Parsons School of Design, where she majored in illustration. She was a graphic designer and an art director for many years before writing her critically acclaimed debut novel, Wonder, which has been on the New York Times bestseller list since March 2012, and sold over 16 million copies worldwide.

In addition to Wonder, R. J. has written Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories, 365 Days of Wonder, We're All Wonders, and White Bird: A Wonder Story. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, two sons and two dogs (Bear and Beau). Learn more about her at www.wonderthebook.com or on Twitter at @rjpalacio.

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Praise for Wonder

Remarkable . . . It has the power to move hearts and change minds

Guardian

Remarkable . . . It has the power to move hearts and change minds

Guardian

Incredibly charming, brutal and brilliant

Observer

Incredibly charming, brutal and brilliant

Observer

It wreaks emotional havoc . . . To finish it with a firm resolve to be a better person - well, you can't ask much more of any book than that

Independent

It wreaks emotional havoc

Independent

When the kids have finished with this, the adults will want to read it. Everybody should

Financial Times

Everybody should [read it]

Financial Times

Jodi Picoult for beginners

Irish Times

It will delight children and adults

Telegraph

So authentic you'll swear a kid wrote the book

Glamour

Funny, touching, honest, and uplifting - though there's plenty of opportunity for tears, too

Daily Mail

Rich and memorable

New York Times

Tremendously uplifting and a novel of all-too-rare power . . . an unforgettable, deeply moving character

Sunday Express

[A] beautiful, funny and sometimes sob-making story of quiet transformation

The Wall Street Journal

[A] glorious exploration of the nature of friendship, tenacity, fear, and most importantly, kindness

The Huffington Post

D[estined to go the way of Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and then some . . . It is dark, funny, touching

The Times

An amazing book . . . I cried my eyes out

Tom Fletcher

What a gem of a story . . . This book made me laugh, made me angry, made me cry

Malorie Blackman

Thoughtful but never preach

Sophie Kinsella

Wonder is essentially . . . a wonder. [It] touches the heart in the most life-affirming, unexpected ways

Nicholas Sparks

Every page is honest, brave and delightful

Laura Dockrill

A powerful read

Stylist

A funny, emotional, brilliantly observed story

Bella Magazine

It's one of those rare books with almost universal appeal: it will make you laugh, cry and break your heart

The Bookseller

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