Wonder is a story about a young boy called August Pullman who was born with facial deformities, and it follows his entering fifth grade in a mainstream school, dealing with bullies and finding his acceptance from students, his family and the entire community.
Wonder was originally written by american author R. J. Palacio and inspired after an incident with her son. He noticed a girl with a facial deformity and began to cry, to try and not make the situation any worse Palacio attempted to remove her son from the situation which inadvertently made the situation worse. After this Palacio was listening to the song “Wonder” by Natalie Merchant which made she interpreted the song and the incident with her son to “illustrate a valuable lesson” and was so inspired by the lyrics in Merchants song that she started to write the story for Wonder. The novel was published in 2012.
Many spin offs have been created over the years for example 365 Days of Wonder: Mr Browne’s Book of Precepts and Auggie and Me. The 2017 film adaption titled Wonder is the most well known and stars famous actors such as Owen Wilson, Julia Roberts and Mandy Patinkin to name a couple.
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Examples of Book Covers:
This cover is good I guess. The whole thing with only showing a little bit of his face I understand as it conveys the whole nature of not judging what he looks like and if you showed his face all disfigured people would get the wrong idea and may be drawn away from purchasing the book.
I like the use of colours in this cover, the artwork is nice and cel shaded and I really enjoy the use of changing the ‘Never Judge a Book by its cover’ to reading out boy and his face instead. With this book cover and the last I do not like the font that is used, I just do not like the style of text for the title personally.
This cover has no tie into the story besides the fact that it is space, people who know nothing about the book at all wouldn’t have a clue that it is about a child with a facial deformity.
This is the best one of out of the ones I have, It incorporates both his love for space and the effect of not showing the entirety of his face to hide facial deformity.
I have come up with two ideas for covers. The first is a minimalistic design with a very basic shape of shoulders and a head, then the face is just going to be a smiley face as if it was drawn on with a marker a slight offset arrangement to give the effect of the disfigurement of his face. The other is an full body image of Auggie sitting on his Astronaut helmet staring up at the stars with his back towards the audience to hide his face from view. I’ve gone with these ideas as it follows the common theme of hiding his facial features to the audience in these covers, and with the second idea also showing his love for space and the helmet which everyone knows.
Honestly I only picked out these colours because I like them personally, I might not even use them for the actual piece itself but if I do then here they are.
I picked out these colours for my first design idea with the drawing on the face, I was thinking of using the red as the colour for the marker, however at this moment I’m not sure about it anymore. I was going to use the light blue as the background colour as a lot of the other book covers use the colour blue as their background colours.
These colours could be used for his skin, hair and his top colour maybe, I’m definitely thinking of using a pink for the skin tone and his hair is actually brown in the books and film so that’s a given use of colours, I’m not sure on the green yet however.
I choose the darker blues and purple for the colours of the space in my second design idea where he is looking out into space, The yellow shades are going to be for the space helmet that he is sitting on.
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