![]() ![]() "So I bought Wonder, and I could not put it down. "It was getting tricky in my house to have a nighttime chapter book everyone would like," she says. Julia initially found out about Wonder ($11, ) by reading a list of the best books for kids. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play Let your heart be your compass. ![]() and Stephen highlight the most meaningful lessons they've taken to heart in their own families. With Auggie's story now hitting the big screen, Julia, R.J. It's also built around a teacher's precepts, sayings related to kindness that echo the challenges everyone in the story grapples with - and that speak to things we can all do to help create a kinder world. The story is told through the alternating perspectives of Auggie, his sister and other kids, a technique that gives the reader true insight into how our actions and words really affect others. Having been tutored until now by his mother (played by Julia), Auggie is entering school in the fifth grade - a change that's stressful for any child, but especially so for one who has spent his life watching others look away. It's the story of Auggie Pullman, a 10-year-old boy who was born with severe facial differences. Palacio, wrote Wonder, a middle-grade novel that adults love too and that has been on best-seller lists for over two years. ![]() At first glance, this could be any group of friends chatting over coffee - except that one is a mega-beautiful Oscar-winning actor, Julia Roberts another is an acclaimed film director, screenwriter and author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky and the third, R.J. ![]()
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