Wonder: The unforgettable, much-loved modern classic (Puffin 85th Anniversary Clothbound Collection) - Hardcover

Palacio, R. J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241777518 ISBN 13: 9780241777510

Publisher: Puffin Classics, 2025

Synopsis

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 85^th 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 85^th 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 this title

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

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Puffin Classics
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241777518
• ISBN 13: 9780241777510
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336