Group questions: It's quite unusual to publish an extra chapter to a book after it's been published. She believed that I would be a writer someday. Finn and Tahirou: Was there anyone who inspired you to become an author? I've always loved to write, and I adore reading, so I think becoming a writer was in the cards for me. Naja and Malachai: Why and how did you want to be an author? My older son had just finished 5th grade when I started writing, so middle school was very fresh in my mind, and a lot of the things that happened in the book were drawn from real life. Max and Alana: What were your influences in writing the book? It took me about a year and a half to complete my first draft. Toni and Abdulhayy: How long did it take you to write Wonder?
I knew a little girl named Summer who was one of the sweetest kids I've ever known. Summer: I'm called Summer, where did you get the name Summer from? We all have experienced that feeling to some extent or other, I think. Even though I don't face the same challenges Auggie faces, I remember what it's like to feel a little insecure, or like I'm the odd one out. Adam: Have you ever felt a little like August feels in the book? If I'd had a third son, I think I might have called him that. So many questions, and here are the answers.Tahirou: How did you choose the name August for the main character? How many times do you reach the end of a book, a really good book and want to know more? This is it. The story within a story here is a fresh engaging element to this chapter book. Different angle, a change of pace and setting enable Julian to take a step back and Palacio to bring in a new level to this book. ‘I’m not a bully like that! I’m not a hater, dudes! Attention, people! Stop being so sensitive!’Ī trip to France to visit his Grandmere provides Julian with much needed perspective. His impassioned pleas, his inability to see Auggie’s perspective, make him appear spoilt and ignorant … Palacio is careful here, the weight of sympathy is not fully with Julian by any stretch. ‘Sometimes fear can make even the nicest kids say and do things they wouldn’t ordinarily say or do.’ It takes awhile before Julian is able to admit fear, ‘My problem is that everything’s different since he’s been coming to school. When Auggie arrives at his school Julian just doesn’t have the skills to deal with the new arrival effectively. With an overbearing mother and an anxiety problem since he was young, it was always stacked up against him.
Palacio tackled bullying head on.īut what about those bullies? It’s a much vocalised statement that the bullies, without excusing their behaviour, often have their own story. Wonderby RJ Palacio got us all talking, and for all the right reasons.
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