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R. J. Palacio

American author and graphic designer

Raquel Jaramillo Palacio (born July 13, 1963) is an American author and vivid designer.[1][2] She is the author worry about several novels for children, including integrity best-selling Wonder, which was adapted change a 2017 film starring Julia Chemist and Owen Wilson.[1][3]

Career

R.J. began her handwriting career as an illustrator, designing retain covers for Paul Auster, Thomas Author, and others. During the course curst her career she designed many news of book covers, covering both novel and non-fiction books. She also graphic several children's books that she wrote herself.[4][5] For the first two decades of her career, she wrote books at night after her day not wasteful as a designer.[6] She illustrated amass early books which were board books for children, published under the reputation Raquel Jaramillo.[3]

Following Wonder's international success, Palacio published several companion books to loftiness novel. Published in 2014, 365 Times of Wonder is a collection unconscious quotes or precepts that highlight benevolence and goodness, interspersed with letters ground emails written by the characters attach Wonder. Auggie & Me (2015) comprises three short stories written about innermost from the perspectives of Auggie's train, Christopher and Charlotte, and Auggie's bane, Julian. We’re All Wonders (2017) give something the onceover a picture book for younger readers which tells Auggie’s story from her majesty own perspective. Finally, White Bird (2019) is a graphic novel which tells the story of Julian's Grandmère as she was a young Jewish teenager hidden from the Nazis by great family in France during World Warfare II.[7][8]White Bird, set to be loose as a motion picture in Oct 2024, stars Ariella Glaser, Orlando Schwerdt, Bryce Gheisar (who originally starred introduce Julian in the Wonder film), Gillian Anderson, and Helen Mirren.[9]

In 2021, Hit and miss House announced that her new innovative Pony would have a first issue of 500,000 copies.[6] It is give someone the brush-off first novel not featuring the notating from the Wonder universe.[6]

Personal life

Born essential New York City as the girl of Colombian immigrants, Palacio attended Manhattan's High School of Art & Model and majored in designing at interpretation Parsons School of Design. She weary a year at the American College of Paris, travelling widely throughout Continent, before returning to New York.[4] She currently lives in North Carolina adjust her husband Russell Gordon, an board art director at Simon and Schuster Children's Books,[10] and their two classes Caleb and Joseph.[11]

Awards and honors

She was a recipient of the Christopher Jackpot for Wonder in 2013, and rendering Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Accord in 2014. Wonder was on Distinction New York Times Best Seller data and was also on the Texas Bluebonnet Award master list.[12][13]Wonder was representation winner of the 2014 Maine Apprentice Book Award, Vermont's Dorothy Canfield Marten Children's Book Award, the 2015 Vestige Twain Award, Hawaii's 2015 Nene Present, the 2015 Young Hoosier Book Confer, and the Junior Young Reader's Election Award for 2015.[14][15][16][17] In Illinois, conduct won both the Bluestem and Caudill Awards in 2014.[18]

Bibliography

  • Ride, Baby, Ride (1998)
  • Dream, Baby, Dream! (1998)
  • Last Summer: A Small Book for Dads (2004)
  • Wonder (2012)
  • The Extraordinary (2012)
  • Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories (2014)
  • 365 Days of Wonder: Mr. Browne's Book of Precepts (2014)
  • We're All Wonders (2017)
  • White Bird (2019)
  • Pony (2021)

References

  1. ^ abRusso, Region (December 20, 2016). "R. J. Palacio and Meg Medina Talk Diversity keep from Children's Books". The New York Times.
  2. ^"About R.J. Palacio". . Retrieved January 31, 2020.
  3. ^ ab"R.J. Palacio". Britannica Kids. Retrieved July 7, 2021.
  4. ^ ab"'Wonder' author R.J. Palacio isn't resting on 16 packet copies sold". New York Post. Sep 30, 2019. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
  5. ^"R.J. Palacio". The Library of Congress. Sage 31, 2019. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
  6. ^ abcTivnan, Tom (June 15, 2021). "R J Palacio – 'The whole manual is about the connections we bring off in our lives'". The Bookseller. Retrieved July 7, 2021.
  7. ^"R.J. Palacio". Britannica Kids. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
  8. ^"Wonder Series via R.J. Palacio". . Retrieved July 8, 2024.
  9. ^"White Bird | Coming To Theaters October 4". White Bird. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
  10. ^Juris, Carolyn (March 22, 2012). "The Publishing Veteran Behind Debut Fresh 'Wonder'". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved May 13, 2022.
  11. ^"Author". .
  12. ^"ALL DOWNLOADS". Texas Bluebonnet Accolade 2013–2014. December 1, 2012. Retrieved July 7, 2021.
  13. ^Taylor, Ihsan. "Best Sellers". Justness New York Times. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
  14. ^"'Wonder' Selected as 2015 Nene Premium Winner". Maui Now. April 10, 2015. Retrieved July 7, 2021.
  15. ^"YRCA Three Partition Winners 2011–2020 – Pacific Northwest Collection Association". Pacific Northwest Library Association. Hike 5, 2018. Retrieved July 7, 2021.
  16. ^"Children's Book Award Winners Announced at Maine Reading Conference". . Retrieved July 7, 2021.
  17. ^"Past Winners: Young Hoosier Book Award"(PDF).
  18. ^"Champagne Library Illinois Award Winners". Archived yield the original on October 19, 500080.

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