Before age 10, Auggie Pullman never attended a mainstream school. He never sat in a classroom smelling of chalk and stale schoolbooks, listening to children's chatter echoing off the walks. He never ...

Watch Alison Luff perform “You Are Beautiful” from the new musical Wonder with Ian Axel (piano) and Yair Evnine (cello).

In Wonder, R.J. Palacio tells the story of Auggie, a tough, sweet, 10-year-old boy, who was born with distorted facial features — a "craniofacial difference" caused by an anomaly in his DNA. Palacio ...

We were all so excited to recently be invited to a screening of the movie “Wonder.” Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson are both in the movie, but actor Jacob Tremblay, who plays Auggie, is truly the star ...

BOTTOM LINE A solid adaptation of a novel with a message of kindness and empathy seems resonant. August “Auggie” Pullman, the young hero of R.J. Palacio’s children’s novel “Wonder,” never describes ...

Ten years ago this week, Knopf published R.J. Palacio’s debut children’s book, Wonder, which introduces Auggie Pullman, a boy born with a facial difference who wants only to be treated like an ...

“I know I’m not an ordinary kid,” Auggie says in a voiceover during the film’s opening scene. “I mean, I’m doing the right things. I just don’t look ordinary when I’m doing these things.” “Wonder” is ...

And explains why she decided to publish this particular story in 2019. Since “Wonder” was published in 2012, the author, R. J. Palacio, has written a series of novels within the same universe, ...

After years of designing book jackets, R.J. Palacio released her own debut novel, “Wonder,” in 2012, with it quickly becoming a New York Times Bestseller. Now, just five years later, the film ...