Her parents didn’t realize she couldn’t hear until several days after she returned home from the hospital.Ģ. She lost most of her hearing at age four and a half after contracting meningitis. Here are a dozen other facts about Cece Bell:ġ. It’s only the second graphic novel to receive such an honor. Her most personal book, El Deafo (Amulet Books, 2014), is a New York Times best seller and won a Newbery Honor Award from the American Library Association in February 2015. Although the main character in the graphic novel El Deafo is a cartoon rabbit with long ears and a bob haircut, the book is really a condensed account of Cece Bell’s experience of growing up hearing impaired.īell, who is a 1998 graduate of the Master of Arts program at Kent State’s School of Visual Communication Design, has written and illustrated more than a dozen children’s books.
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