A WONDERFUL WORLD
Children’s author R.J. Palacio on the feel-good film of the year
WHEN R.J. PALACIO’S debut children’s novel about a boy with severe craniofacial deformities was optioned for film, she figured it would be an indie production with lesser-known actors. “Not Julia Roberts!” she says. Wonder, which has sold more than 5 million copies and been translated into 45 languages, follows the travails of August Pullman—a boy whose Treacher Collins syndrome makes strangers
