Wonder by R.J. Palacio

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

R. J. Palacio lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, two sons and two dogs .A first generation American author, Palacio was born on July 13, 1963 in New York City. Her birth name is Raquel Jaramillo. Palacio attended The High School of Art & Design in Manhattan.. She spent her junior year at The American University in Paris, where she traveled extensively before returning to NYC with an eye toward making her career in illustration. In addition to designing book covers, Palacio illustrated several of her own children’s books that were published under her birth name. Her debut novel, Wonder, has been on the New York Times bestseller list since March, 2012 and has sold over 5 million copies worldwide Her early works appeared in The Village Voice and The New York Times Book Review, which eventually segued into her storied career as the art director of several major book publishing companies. She designed thousands of book covers for countless writers in every genre of fiction and non-fiction.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Wonder is a children’s novel by Raquel Jaramillo, under the pen name of R. J. Palacio, published on February 14, 2012. R. J. Basically it’s a story of ten-year-old boy named August Pullman. He had multiple surgeries to correct his facial deformity so he was homeschooled. However, his parents decide to send him to a school before he starts studying for fifth grade. Palacio wrote Wonder after an incident where her son noticed a girl with a severe facial difference and started to cry. Fearing he would react badly, Palacio attempted to remove her son from the situation so as not to upset the girl and her family but ended up worsening the situation. Natalie Merchant’s song “Wonder” made her realize that the incident could illustrate a valuable lesson. Palacio was inspired by Merchant’s lyrics and she began writing. She named the book directly after the song, and used the song’s chorus as the prologue.

Writing style of R. J. Palacio

You can often understand with the Protagonists and it’s very easy to understand them she uses very simple language which she interpretate very well.

She really engage its reader to the story and the audience feel very connected with the story I particularly like it, that the author, R. J. Palacio describes the same situations from different characters. she has made many thoughts about the disease of August. R. J. Palacio She usually play with words and and shows a really good sense of humour in her stories. The author also uses many proverbs to compare the situations.

MEHAK CHATURVEDI