With an adapted book by Sarah Ruhl and music by the duo A Great Big World, this empathetic, energetic show is bound for the ...

Auggie Pullman (Jacob Tremblay), the central character in Stephen Chbosky’s “Wonder,” is a brainy 10-year-old boy with a sweet high voice and a congenital facial deformity, whom numerous corrective ...

It all started with a book. In fourth grade, our teachers read to us from “Wonder” by R.J. Palacio. “Wonder” is the inspiring story of August “Auggie” Pullman, a fifth-grader with a facial deformity. ...

Based on the best-selling children's novel of the same name, the show follows 7th-grader Auggie, who has a craniofacial ...

Middle school can be agonizing for any kid, but, as “Wonder” begins, we suspect it’s going to be especially hard for 10-year-old Auggie Pullman. After 27 surgeries to help him see, breathe and hear, ...

LONDON — “Wonder” could have been designed as an antidote to the headlines. It’s a thoroughly positive movie about the importance of kindness. Based on R.J. Palacio’s best-selling children’s novel, ...

In the perennial outcry against a culture that bombards children with violent/sexy/occult/dystopian books, another assault on young readers rarely gets mentioned ...

Owen Wilson wondered how the heck they would pull it off when he read the script. Director Stephen Chbosky, meanwhile, was adamant about not leaning on visual effects. “I was never gonna do it if it ...

Five years ago, Stephen Chbosky adapted and directed his own young adult novel, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” into a critically acclaimed movie. Now he’s done the same with R.J. Palacio’s ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - "Wonder" is THE children's book of the last decade. R.J. Palacio's 2012 tween novel is a powerful, heartbreaking, inspiring tale of a young boy born with a horrible facial deformity ...

As a craniofacial surgeon with more than 30 years of experience in treating facial abnormalities and performing reconstructive surgery on children with congenital deformities, I am heartened to see ...

It’s a “Wonder” — but in name only. Despite earnest intentions, a good cast led by Julia Roberts and Jacob Tremblay and touching moments, cowriter-director Stephen Chbosky’s family drama is hamstrung ...