Description
Celebrating 85 years of Sparking Imaginations
A beautiful clothbound edition of the much-loved modern classic Wonder. Bound in real cloth with two coloured foils and sprayed coloured edges, this deluxe edition is a perfect gift or collector's item. Part of an eight book set published to mark the 85th anniversary of Puffin Books. With a brand-new foreword from Tom Fletcher.
'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 facial difference, 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 he's just like them, underneath it all?
Astonishingly powerful, WONDER is a read you'll never forget.
Collect all eight titles in the Puffin Clothbound 85th Anniversary Collection
- THE STORY OF TRACY BEAKER by Jacqueline Wilson with a foreword by Beth Lincoln
- DIARY OF A WIMPY KID by Jeff Kinney with a foreword by Dapo Adeola
- CHARLOTTE'S WEB by E.B. White with a foreword by Jordan Lees
- MATILDA by Roald Dahl with a foreword by Robin Stevens
- THE EXTREMELY EMBARRASSING LIFE OF LOTTIE BROOKS by Katie Kirby with a foreword by Nadia Shireen
- PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF by Rick Riordan with a foreword by Nazneen Ahmed Pathak
- PIG-HEART BOY by Malorie Blackman with a foreword by Adam Kay
- WONDER by R.J. Palacio with a foreword by Tom Fletcher
About the Author
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, sold over 16 million copies worldwide and been adapted into a movie.
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, which is soon to be a major motion picture. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband, two sons and two dogs (Bear and Beau).
Follow her on Twitter: @RJPalacio
Reviews
Remarkable . . . It has the power to move hearts and change minds * Guardian *
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 *
When the kids have finished with this, the adults will want to read it. Everybody should * Financial Times *
What a gem of a story. Moving and heart-warming. This book made me laugh, made me angry, made me cry
Awards
Winner of Wirral Grammar School Book Awards 2013. Commended for Berkshire Book Award 2013 (UK). Short-listed for Wandsworth Schools Fabulous Book Award 2014 (UK) and Golden Dragon Hong Kong Award 2014 (UK) and Hampshire Book Award 2015 (UK). Long-listed for UKLA Book Award 2012 (UK) and Carnegie Medal 2013 (UK).
Book Information
ISBN 9780241777510
Author R. J. Palacio
Format Hardback
Page Count 336
Imprint Puffin Classics
Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
Weight(grams) 376g
Dimensions(mm) 206mm * 138mm * 31mm
