The facilitator of dreams
Christopher Wonder lives and works as a fulltime magician, designing elegant, controlled, chaotic disasters that unfold beauty before disbelieving eyes. Wonder's magic act springs from his delirious pleasure at one moment to his reckless anguish the next. Grotesque and silly, cruel and naive, sinister and funny, disturbing yet beautiful, Christopher Wonder is anything but cute and sugary. Wonder's audiences have teetered between a shutter and a giggle since his first departures from reality at the age of six, when young Christopher dazzled them, armed with nothing more than his grandfather's magic kit. A fresh-faced graduate from the Chavez school of magic in , Christopher Wonder toured the United States as a school assembly performer for 6 years. Now, his scheduled departure from reality guides audiences through the dreamscape of his rat circus and the fortunes of his psychic pig , as he escapes from his predicament as a human pinata. Magic, he believes, is not about shoving a girl in a box, but about transcending dreadful situations.
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R. J. Palacio facts for kids
Quick facts for kids R. J. Palacio | |
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Palacio at the National Book Festival | |
| Born | () July 13, (age 61) New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author |
Raquel Jaramillo Palacio (born July 13, ) is an American author and graphic designer. She is the author of several novels for children, including the best-selling Wonder, which was adapted into a film starring Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson.
Career
R.J. began her writing career as an illustrator, designing book covers for Paul Auster, Thomas Pynchon, and others. During the course of her career she designed many hundreds of book covers, covering both fiction and non-fiction books. She also illustrated several children's books that she wrote herself. For the first two decades of her career, she wrote books at night after her day job as a designer. She illustrated her early books which were board books for children, published under the name Raquel Jaramillo.
Following Wonder's international success, Palacio published several companion books to the novel. Published in , Days of Wonder is a collection of quotes or precepts that highlight kindness and goodness, interspersed with letters a
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