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Wonder de R. J. Palacio

Wonder

Autor R. J. Palacio
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 sep 2017 – vârsta până la 17 ani

Ritmul lecturii în Wonder este dictat de o succesiune de voci autentice care construiesc, piesă cu piesă, portretul unei comunități în fața diferenței. Remarcăm cum R. J. Palacio alege să nu descrie explicit trăsăturile lui August, lăsând imaginația cititorului să lucreze, în timp ce se concentrează pe interacțiunile umane profunde. Suntem de părere că forța acestui roman rezidă în structura sa polifonică; deși povestea începe cu experiența lui Auggie în clasa a cincea la Beecher Prep, perspectiva glisează natural către sora sa, iubitul acesteia și colegii de școală, oferind o viziune completă asupra empatiei și a luptei cu prejudecățile. Copiii care au iubit The Bubble Boy de Stewart Foster vor găsi aici aceeași explorare sensibilă a izolării și a dorinței de a fi acceptat, într-un context marcat de un optimism revigorant. Această „meditație asupra bunătății”, așa cum o numește autoarea, transformă o situație dificilă într-o lecție despre reziliență. Ilustrațiile alb-negru de la începutul capitolelor punctează vizual tranzițiile între naratori, facilitând urmărirea progresiei emoționale a personajelor. Față de lucrări ulterioare precum White Bird, unde Palacio explorează curajul în contexte istorice dramatice, sau Pony, unde aventura se împletește cu elemente supraturale, Wonder rămâne ancorată în realitatea imediată a școlii și a familiei, fiind piatra de temelie a universului său literar dedicat compasiunii.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141378244
ISBN-10: 0141378247
Pagini: 341
Ilustrații: Chapter head a/w
Dimensiuni: 128 x 197 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Ediția:Media tie-in
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Puffin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm Wonder părinților care doresc să deschidă cu copiii lor (vârsta 9+) o conversație onestă despre bullying și acceptare. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă rară asupra valorii caracterului în detrimentul aparențelor. Este o resursă educativă esențială care nu doar povestește despre bunătate, ci oferă un model concret de curaj social și prietenie autentică într-o lume care are mare nevoie de ele.

Despre autor

R. J. Palacio locuiește în New York City și a lucrat mulți ani ca designer grafic și director artistic înainte de a scrie primul său roman. Wonder a reprezentat debutul său literar spectaculos, devenind rapid un fenomen global și inspirând mișcarea „Choose Kind”. Cariera sa este marcată de o preocupare constantă pentru temele empatiei și ale integrității morale, explorate atât în romane grafice, cât și în ficțiune pentru tineri. Experiența sa în design este vizibilă în estetica edițiilor sale, autoarea reușind să îmbine vizualul cu narativul pentru a transmite mesaje sociale puternice.

Notă biografică

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, and sold over 16 million copies worldwide.

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. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, two sons and two dogs (Bear and Beau). Learn more about her at www.wonderthebook.com or on Twitter at @RJPalacio.

Recenzii

Remarkable . . . It has the power to move hearts and change minds
Incredibly charming, brutal and brilliant
It wreaks emotional havoc
Everybody should [read it]
Jodi Picoult for beginners
It will delight children and adults
So authentic you'll swear a kid wrote the book
Funny, touching, honest, and uplifting - though there's plenty of opportunity for tears, too
Rich and memorable
Tremendously uplifting and a novel of all-too-rare power . . . an unforgettable, deeply moving character
[A] beautiful, funny and sometimes sob-making story of quiet transformation
[A] glorious exploration of the nature of friendship, tenacity, fear, and most importantly, kindness
D[estined to go the way of Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and then some . . . It is dark, funny, touching
An amazing book . . . I cried my eyes out
What a gem of a story . . . This book made me laugh, made me angry, made me cry
Thoughtful but never preach
Wonder is essentially . . . a wonder. [It] touches the heart in the most life-affirming, unexpected ways
Every page is honest, brave and delightful
A powerful read
A funny, emotional, brilliantly observed story
It's one of those rare books with almost universal appeal: it will make you laugh, cry and break your heart
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
When the kids have finished with this, the adults will want to read it. Everybody should

Descriere scurtă

Read the internationally bestselling book before you watch the major movie from Lionsgate, starring Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson. This special edition is complete with exclusive behind-the-scenes content.

The unforgettable and life-affirming story of August Pullman - a boy who's desperate to blend in, but is destined to stand out.

'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 terrible facial abnormality, 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.

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Soon to be a major film starring Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson and Jacob Tremblay. '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 terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life.

Now, for the first time, he's being sent to a real school - and he's dreading it. All he wants is to be accepted - but can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, underneath it all?WONDER is a funny, frank, astonishingly moving debut to read in one sitting, pass on to others, and remember long after the final page.

Extras

Ordinary

I know I’m not an ordinary ten-year-old kid. I mean, sure, I do ordinary things. I eat ice cream. I ride my bike. I play ball. I have an XBox. Stuff like that makes me ordinary. I guess. And I feel ordinary. Inside. But I know ordinary kids don’t make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. I know ordinary kids don’t get stared at wherever they go.

If I found a magic lamp and I could have one wish, I would wish that I had a normal face that no one ever noticed at all. I would wish that I could walk down the street without people seeing me and then doing that look-away thing. Here’s what I think: the only reason I’m not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way.

But I’m kind of used to how I look by now. I know how to pretend I don’t see the faces people make. We’ve all gotten pretty good at that sort of thing: me, Mom and Dad, Via. Actually, I take that back: Via’s not so good at it. She can get really annoyed when people do something rude. Like, for instance, one time in the playground some older kids made some noises. I don’t even know what the noises were exactly because I didn’t hear them myself, but Via heard and she just started yelling at the kids. That’s the way she is. I’m not that way.

Via doesn’t see me as ordinary. She says she does, but if I were ordinary, she wouldn’t feel like she needs to protect me as much. And Mom and Dad don’t see me as ordinary, either. They see me as extraordinary. I think the only person in the world who realizes how ordinary I am is me.

My name is August, by the way. I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse.



Why I Didn’t Go to School

Next week I start fifth grade. Since I’ve never been to a real school before, I am pretty much totally and completely petrified. People think I haven’t gone to school because of the way I look, but it’s not that. It’s because of all the surgeries I’ve had. Twenty-seven since I was born. The bigger ones happened before I was even four years old, so I don’t remember those. But I’ve had two or three surgeries every year since then (some big, some small), and because I’m little for my age, and I have some other medical mysteries that doctors never really figured out, I used to get sick a lot. That’s why my parents decided it was better if I didn’t go to school. I’m much stronger now, though. The last surgery I had was eight months ago, and I probably won’t have to have any more for another couple of years.

Mom homeschools me. She used to be a children’s-book illustrator. She draws really great fairies and mermaids. Her boy stuff isn’t so hot, though. She once tried to draw me a Darth Vader, but it ended up looking like some weird mushroom-shaped robot. I haven’t seen her draw anything in a long time. I think she’s too busy taking care of me and Via.

I can’t say I always wanted to go to school because that wouldn’t be exactly true. What I wanted was to go to school, but only if I could be like every other kid going to school. Have lots of friends and hang out after school and stuff like that.

I have a few really good friends now. Christopher is my best friend, followed by Zachary and Alex. We’ve known each other since we were babies. And since they’ve always known me the way I am, they’re used to me. When we were little, we used to have playdates all the time, but then Christopher moved to Bridgeport in Connecticut. That’s more than an hour away from where I live in North River Heights, which is at the top tip of Manhattan. And Zachary and Alex started going to school. It’s funny: even though Christopher’s the one who moved far away, I still see him more than I see Zachary and Alex. They have all these new friends now. If we bump into each other on the street, they’re still nice to me, though. They always say hello.

I have other friends, too, but not as good as Christopher and Zack and Alex were. For instance, Zack and Alex always invited me to their birthday parties when we were little, but Joel and Eamonn and Gabe never did. Emma invited me once, but I haven’t seen her in a long time. And, of course, I always go to Christopher’s birthday. Maybe I’m making too big a deal about birthday parties.



How I Came to Life

I like when Mom tells this story because it makes me laugh so much. It’s not funny in the way a joke is funny, but when Mom tells it, Via and I just start cracking up.

So when I was in my mom’s stomach, no one had any idea I would come out looking the way I look. Mom had had Via four years before, and that had been such a “walk in the park” (Mom’s expression) that there was no reason to run any special tests. About two months before I was born, the doctors realized there was something wrong with my face, but they didn’t think it was going to be bad. They told Mom and Dad I had a cleft palate and some other stuff going on. They called it “small anomalies.”

There were two nurses in the delivery room the night I was born. One was very nice and sweet. The other one, Mom said, did not seem at all nice or sweet. She had very big arms and (here comes the funny part), she kept farting. Like, she’d bring Mom some ice chips, and then fart. She’d check Mom’s blood pressure, and fart. Mom says it was unbelievable because the nurse never even said excuse me! Meanwhile, Mom’s regular doctor wasn’t on duty that night, so Mom got stuck with this cranky kid doctor she and Dad nicknamed Doogie after some old TV show or something (they didn’t actually call him that to his face). But Mom says that even though everyone in the room was kind of grumpy, Dad kept making her laugh all night long.

When I came out of Mom’s stomach, she said the whole room got very quiet. Mom didn’t even get a chance to look at me because the nice nurse immediately rushed me out of the room. Dad was in such a hurry to follow her that he dropped the video camera, which broke into a million pieces. And then Mom got very upset and tried to get out of bed to see where they were going, but the farting nurse put her very big arms on Mom to keep her down in the bed. They were practically fighting, because Mom was hysterical and the farting nurse was yelling at her to stay calm, and then they both started screaming for the doctor. But guess what? He had fainted! Right on the floor! So when the farting nurse saw that he had fainted, she started pushing him with her foot to get him to wake up, yelling at him the whole time: “What kind of doctor are you? What kind of doctor are you? Get up! Get up!” And then all of a sudden she let out the biggest, loudest, smelliest fart in the history of farts. Mom thinks it was actually the fart that finally woke the doctor up. Anyway, when Mom tells this story, she acts out all the parts--including the farting noises--and it is so, so, so, so funny!

Mom says the farting nurse turned out to be a very nice woman. She stayed with Mom the whole time. Didn’t leave her side even after Dad came back and the doctors told them how sick I was. Mom remembers exactly what the nurse whispered in her ear when the doctor told her I probably wouldn’t live through the night: “Everyone born of God overcometh the world.” And the next day, after I had lived through the night, it was that nurse who held Mom’s hand when they brought her to meet me for the first time.

Mom says by then they had told her all about me. She had been preparing herself for the seeing of me. But she says that when she looked down into my tiny mushed-up face for the first time, all she could see was how pretty my eyes were.

Mom is beautiful, by the way. And Dad is handsome. Via is pretty. In case you were wondering.