if was watching a bit of it earlier.m these are our future players, we might end up winning the world cup. let'sjust start might end up winning the world cup. let's just start slowly and enjoy it for what it is. there is another picture on the front of the independent and the observer. let's enjoy it for what it is. they are not talking to their agents about sponsorship deals. this is like 1966 all over again. we haven't even mentioned what we are talking about. the under 17 england world cup team have won the world cup in a 5—2 victory over spain. spain didn't really need this, but england needed it. and of course, the under 20s won as well. they were so chuffed at the end, and the coach. charlie is with me, penny. i will be

end, and the coach. charlie is with me, penny. iwill be dead end, and the coach. charlie is with me, penny. i will be dead by 2066! i spoke to a father of one of the players and he said he sent a text before the semifinal saying, you are not playing well, and his response was a hat—trick. brewster was his name. amazing news for them, but it is an insight into future talent didn't does show that with investment in which a sport, we can produce fantastic performances. almost like the american women's team. at one point, they had more world cup goals than beckham did. we had one of the all—time teams, but it was our women's team. so if we can do it, you guys have a shot as well. thanks, charlie! charlie and penny, we will do it all again at

11.30, with more stories. see you then. more front pages are coming coming up next, it's meet the author. rj palacio's book, wonder, is haunting. here's a sentence from the first page. "my name is august. i won't describe what i look like. whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse". the story of this boy starts from there, and it's a journey that has enthralled readers around the world. welcome. the beginning of the book is startling, even horrifying.

in that sense, you're saying to the reader, "do you have the guts to stay with the story?", aren't you? i wanted to whet their appetite. but at the same time, yes, sort of like, say, "are you with me? are you in for this trip?" it is quite a journey. it's an emotionaljourney. it is quite an emotional journey, and i will get you to describe it in a moment, but what you are touching on with the idea of a deformity that is so awful that it cannot be described at the beginning of the book, you are touching on one of the deepest fears that people have about how they appear. i think in a lot of ways, craniofacial differences are tough for people because there is something about the face being that first line of public persona. it's your telegraph to the world.

so if you have a craniofacial difference, you face a challenge unlike any other, in that that is how people perceive you. their first line ofjudgment is based on the face. and the boy, august, knows that this is going to define him ever day for the rest of his life? and yet he doesn't define himself as looking different. he's used to his face. he actually likes it in some ways. you know, he brushes his hair. he wants to looks as good as he can look, he's fine with it. he understands that other people might be curious and may react, but he doesn't mind that, it is more when people attach cruelty or people make assertions about his character, based on what he looks like, that's where he draws the line. you're saying in a way that this is a lesson in why we shouldn't make judgments? absolutely.

you have to get to know a person before you make any sort of judgments. take us through the story. it's about a ten—year—old boy called augie pullman who born with a craniofacial situation that sets him apart. because of his surgery, he has been home—schooled his whole life. when he is 10 years old, the major surgeries are behind him and it is time for him to go to a school and not be home schooled any more. so the book takes us from his point of view through his first year, 5th grade in the states, and then it switches point of view, it starts from augie's narrative but then it goes into the perspective of his sister and several of the other friends that he meets along the way in thatjourney throughout the first year in school. the way you write is very distinctive. very short chapters, like snapshots.

it's a device that, i mean, it's quite natural because of the nature of the story, but it means that the whole story has the sense, almost as if you are turning a scrapbook with, you know, a different picture, a different situation on each page. that's a great way to put it. i never thought of that. but they are like polaroid snapshots of his life. the chapters are short. one of the reasons for that is that my target audience is young. i know that kids like to keep it quick. this is a book that, because it's touching on a universal theme, as we mentioned, fear, misunderstanding, reluctance to look behind the outward appearance, these are things that affect everybody, whether you are in your seventies or whether you're 10. right. you don't have to look

like augie pullman to be able to relate to the sense of social isolation or remember your own childhood, the moments when a friend may have betrayed you. these are universal experiences. this is a book that makes you wonder, anybody wonder, it made me wonder, how did you get the idea? what was the trigger for the story? i was with my young son, i have two children. i was with my younger son, three years old at the time. we found ourselves in close proximity to a little girl who had a severe craniofacial difference. my son was three years old. he started to cry when he saw her. quite a natural reaction. quite natural, but in my haste to shield herfrom seeing his reaction, i thought that the best thing at the time to do was to leave as quickly as i could. but i realised later that from her perspective or from the mom's, it may have looked like i was trying to shield my son.

there's no easy way out. and that got me thinking about what it was like to face a world every day that doesn't quite know how to face you back. and yet as you point out with auggie, he lives with it every day, it's no big deal. he's learned to cope with it. but you know that every time you meet somebody for the first time, there will be this reaction. you almost get used to saying "don't worry, i'm fine". right. and that's exactly his whole... everything he talks about. that's his theme. it's like "i am an ordinary kid, it's just the rest of the world that doesn't see me that way". how do you explain the reaction to the book? it's had a huge number of glowing reviews, but more obviously than that, it seems to grip people as a story.

it's something they cannot stop reading. they're just fascinated by it. i suppose there's a sense of horror at imagining yourself in that position, despite his well—balanced personality? well, i think also, its a very optimistic view of humanity. i think ultimately, as a parent, and that as i think a lot of people read it, they think that if a boy like auggie who has been met with such unkindness in his life can nevertheless manage to be kind to other people and find that humour and kindness, certainly " if he can do it, i can do it". we talked about the way that this book has come to appeal to people of all ages, but you've talked about your target as a reader, really, being a very young person. what do you find exciting about writing for young readers, perhaps readers not yet in their teens? i think that ten, 11, and 12—year—olds are very...

i like writing about them and writing for them because it's a very tender moment in a person's life. it's a moment when they're transitioning between being very young and that point in your life when your parents are making all the decisions for you, who to play with, who to hang out with, what to eat, and your teachers in school are telling you who to sit with and all of that. i like writing about it because i think it's an interesting moment, but the theme of the book is about kindness. it's about how, if you think about it, if your natural default to every situation in life is to try to be kind about it, you can never go wrong. so that's sort of the message of the book. try to be kind whatever you do, and you'll be ok. so that's really what i was trying to write about. rj palacio, author of wonder, thank you very much. thank you so much.

it was a pleasure. i really appreciate it. as the clocks change tonight, so our weather will change as well. not by an hour, but by several degrees. it will fill quite a bit chilly on sunday, but it will be bright and there will be more sunshine. we have had gusty but mild westerly winds today. but coming down from the arctic, we will draw down this cold air, the wind direction changing tomorrow to a northerly. it is still producing a bit of rain and drizzle as it tracks southwards overnight. clearer skies follow behind in that northerly wind. the strongest winds are near that weather front by the end of the night, where we will have more clout keeping temperatures higher. but further north, temperatures will be much lower. 0n

sunday, we start with some cloud across parts of england and wales. then we get good spells of sunshine through the day. there will be showers across northern scotland down the north sea coast. it is here that we will have the strongest winds and it will feel coldest, struggling to make double figures in scotland, where as we have 1a degrees for wales and the south—west, where the winds will not be as strong and it will not feel too bad. the winds continue to drop off overnight, this area of high pressure building across the uk. that means it is going to get cold enough for a frost. it is in the countryside that we will find temperatures close to orjust below freezing, with widespread frost on the grass. but we are not seeing much frosty weather for the whole of the month. they will still be a chilly day on monday. but over the coming days, it will turn milder. we get a westerly wind blowing in again and we will see some rain as well,

mainly in the north—west. a chilly start on monday, probably turning more hazy with cloud spilling down from the north—west. the thicker cloud may give pockets of rain here and there. it will be a cooler day for the south—west of the uk. then is that westerly wind becomes established on tuesday, we see more cloud and pockets of rain and drizzle. but temperatures will be higher. this is bbc news. the headlines at 11: catalonia's former president vows to resist direct rule from madrid with peaceful opposition. it comes as thousands take part in rallies in spain's capital, madrid, in favour of unity with catalonia. jeremy corbyn demands that mps who sexually abuse or harass women are held to account and appeals

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