Wonder Reading Research - Penguin Books - Competition Brief

From reading Wonder I was able to get a sense of the story and particular age group the book was aimed at. I took some quotes from the story and began thinking about visuals:

'I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.'

'Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness'

'The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you.'

'I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks.'

One of the main themes of the story is that August is different from the other characters and how he deals with that. But by the end its about how he accepts his difference and sees himself as ordinary. It would be interesting to do a cover design that illustrates August as both different and ordinary.