I Wonder

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iWonder is a six-level series that teaches English alongside other school subjects and brings all the wonderful elements of the real world into the language classroom. The course has been designed to fully engage and motivate young learners and to ensure that they develop a love of learning that is never-ending! Thinking about it more though, maybe that's why this book is perfect for our family, because I am a "let's find out" kind of mom. Maybe this fills in a little space in our lives that I didn't even know was there. Maybe our family should learn to be more open to not knowing! Before my daughter turned two, she began ignoring questions she couldn’t answer. Then she moved on to giving answers which she knew to be false. I realized that she had grown accustomed to being celebrated every time she answered a question correctly and was, naturally, less interested in exchanges that didn’t produce this response. But I also realized something even more important: I hadn’t taught her to say “I don’t know” let alone celebrated her ability to do so. In all social and emotional learning, children need our help identifying the many new feelings they experience: “Oh, that batman costume scared you,” or “I know, you feel sad when mommy leaves.” So I went looking for a children’s book that would help us talk about the experience of not knowing, but I couldn’t find one. I Wonder’ is more than just eye candy. It is worth taking the time to explore Bantjes’ theoretically founded design approach: The illustrations not only serve as decorative frames, but deliver important information which is tightly interwoven with the texts. For example, the photographic series of everyday, bland signposts in the author’s hometown first reveals the idiosyncratic typographic appeal of everyday graphics. Not until these elements are agglomerated do the larger patterns in her work take form. […] ‘I Wonder’ is a playground for Marian Bantjes’ non-conformist emotional approach to design. This stance, which draws its vitality from a childish curiousity makes it a marvelous antithesis to increasingly strategic and calculated communication design.” Summer is the first friend Auggie makes at school. She is an independent thinker who is kind and compassionate.

Auggie Pullman, aged ten, lives in New York and is about to start fifth grade. This is the same as starting year six in the UK. He has never been to school before. He has a severe facial difference and he has been home-schooled because he has needed lots of operations. From waking up to finally going to bed, the day is filled with questions. There are questions about whether the sun is really a kite. Do tires get tired? What are boy ladybugs called? Where are the unicorns? Could your belly button hold a galaxy? How do shadows work? Are toys lonely or sad? Do trees dream? One after another the questions are asked and left unanswered for the reader to think about and ponder. The book ends with children being reminded that they wonder because they are wonderful. While the book will be enjoyed by designers and our ilk, it also has a broad range of appeal. The thoughts and experiences within are largely universal, and at times very personal. Buy one for your mother! Your nephew! Your boyfriend! With the book’s insistence on narrative, and focus on typography, the result combines the best of two worlds. It’s a readable collection of smart, visually-intense short stories, and a design book that will likely never leave your coffee table.”Alter, Alexandra (13 February 2014). "R.J. Palacio's 'Wonder' Spins Off Two Follow-Up Books". The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved 8 February 2016. Auggie notices that the other students are avoiding him. After a while, Summer tells him that Julian has started a game called the Plague. The rules are that anyone who touches Auggie has 30 seconds to wash their hands or they will catch the Plague.

Olivia, known as "Via" by her family, is Auggie’s older sister. She is 15 years old and has just started high school. During the book she explains how she is having trouble finding her own identity and feels left out by her friends. I Wonder is a picture book for children ages 1 and up. The story is about a little girl who takes a walk with her mother and encounters a range of mysteries—from gravity, to life cycles, to the vastness of the universe. She learns to talk about how it feels to not know something, and she learns that it’s okay to say “I don’t know.” In the process, she discovers that there are some things even adults don’t know—mysteries for everyone in the world to wonder about together! The Illustrator

Moody, Mike (19 January 2018). "Review: Wonder by R.J. Palacio". Disability in Kid Lit . Retrieved 7 July 2021. The power of friendship is also an important theme. We witness friendships being made, broken and renewed. a b Watson, Madalyn (20 January 2023). " 'White Bird: A Wonder Story' Sets Summer Release Date". Collider . Retrieved 11 November 2023. Auggie & Me is a companion book to Wonder. It contains three stories, each telling the events of Wonder from different perspectives. The first story, called "The Julian Chapter," is told from the point of view of school bully Julian, explaining why he mistreats Auggie. The second, called "Pluto," focuses on Auggie's life before Beecher Prep and is told from the point of view of Christopher, Auggie's oldest friend. The third is called "Shingaling" and is told from the point of view of Auggie's classmate Charlotte, who, in Wonder, is the first person that is nice to him at Beecher Prep; it focuses on relationships and events between some of the girls in Auggie's year, such as Ximena Chin, Summer Dawson, and Maya Markowitz. Auggie’s mum, Isabel, often worries about him and can be overprotective. After she hears about Julian being mean, she isn’t sure that sending Auggie to school is the right thing to do but she knows that she needs to let Auggie have more independence.