That night, I turned on the radio and the song that came on was Natalie Merchant’s “Wonder,” one of my favorite songs of all time. I wished I had started talking to the girl and shown my son there was nothing to be afraid of. Afterward, it occurred to me that it might have looked like I was trying to shield my son from her. In my haste to shield the girl from seeing my son’s reaction, I left the scene rather quickly. My younger son was about three at the time. Palacio: We found ourselves sitting right next to a little girl who had a very significant facial difference. Mother Jones: Wonder was inspired by your own encounter at an ice cream shop, with a kid who had Treacher Collins syndrome. Somebody cuts me off in traffic, I’m like… ‘Choose kind!’ It’s the new ‘Count to three.'” “Kindness doesn’t come naturally,” she says. It might even inspire you to “choose kind,” as Palacio puts it.
Parents of school-age kids can count on accompanying them to the multiplex to witness this celebration of youthful courage. The heartwarming movie, which opens next Friday, features Roberts as Auggie’s mom, Owen Wilson as his dad, Homeland‘s Mandy Patinkin as the school principal, and Hamilton star Daveed Diggs as Auggie’s English teacher. Wonder, which has sold more than five million copies and been translated into 45 languages, follows the travails of August Pullman-a boy whose Treacher Collins syndrome makes strangers recoil-as he enters fifth grade at Beecher Prep.
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. The Portmans-Nate (Owen Wilson), Via ( Izabela Vidovic), and Isabel (Julia Roberts), accompany Auggie (Jacob Tremblay) to his first day of school.
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