Though originally published separately, the three stories were eventually grouped together and sold as one. I've been falling in love with 'everything Ireland' since meeting a panel of Irish authors this past summer. This helps the reader to think about how characters are affected by the actions of others and encourages the readers to think about how they treat others. Many of the characters in Wonder are trying to find out who they are and how they want others to see them.

As I was reading the book, nothing supernatural had actually happened, and yet I felt an overwhelming sense of otherness. Summer struggles over whether to keep hanging out with Auggie or to hang out with the popular crowd instead, but ultimately chooses Auggie.Disfigured person Mike Moody, writing on the Disability in Kidlit blog, described the book as "an engaging, heart-rending story about disfigurement" but also discussed disappointment over the "missed opportunity" of the continued downplaying of the main character's disability and his persistent lack of agency. She’s a woman of science, a nurse, a person who has devoted her young life to caring for patients to the best of her ability, and she has no time for either the religious explanations or the traditional fears about the fairy folk. The Wonder posed some interesting questions, and Donoghue unfurled her plot and ratcheted up the tension, little by little. I desperately clung to the hope that one of the adults in Anna's life would take control of the situation. The beginning started out promising, the last 30 pages were fantastic, but the in between was really slow and boring.

Frog Music, her next effort, didn't quite strike the same chord with audiences and seems underappreciated.Well, the premise is certainly one I’ve never encountered before, with a based, in part, on the ‘fasting girls’ phenomenon back in the Victorian days. The only positive thing I can really say is that the overall premise is intriguing and there are a couple of thought provoking parts that I liked. The book starts with Auggie’s viewpoint and then the reader gets to see how other people see Auggie.