El Deafo

2015 Newbery Honor Book may go to school and make new friends may be difficult. But, wearing a bulky hearing aid tied to your chest, go to school and make new friends? This requires super powers! In this funny and painful memory of graphic novels, author / illustrator Cece Bell recorded her childhood hearing impairment and the very powerful and very clumsy hearing aid Phonic Ear's experience following.

Phonic Ear allowed Cece to hear - sometimes she should not do it - but she also separated her from her classmates. She really wants to find a real friend, a person who highly appreciates her like herself. After some problems she was able to finally use the power of Phonic Ear to become "El Deafo, Listener". More importantly, please find a friend that she adores to announce place for himself in the world.

"Autobiographical stories granted this authority are adjacent to Smile (2011) of Raina Telgemeier and Tomboy of Liz Prince."

"This book is for junior high school students, but this painful story is what people of all ages like to learn and can learn." - American Metro's Emily Lawrence

"Bell's book should be an inspiration for those" different "people. It should help others understand different meanings. Reading the required reading is not always fun to read. "- New York Times Book Review Katherine Bouton

"This fun and painful memo tells children in the form of graphic novels, they are trying to solve the problem of hearing impairment, they enter the school and are making friends." - Shelf consciousness

This passionate and humorous full color painting novel in the outskirts of the 1970s has a childish nuisance melodrama that has a personality depriving personality and exaggerated. I was scared. - Sararisa Paulson, American Sign Language and UK Lower School, New York City, School Library Magazine

"Therefore, this memoir is particularly useful and fun in some aspects of hearing impaired communication, but most centers and powerful, its insight, indomitable hero and complex friendship, growth, classroom and family A dynamic story is a special case. "- Deirdre F. Baker, The Horn Book Magazine

2015 El Deafo of Cece Bell of Newbery Honor Book also received comments from Kirkus Review and Publishers Weekly. El Deafo's Newbery honor "Excellent Contribution to Children's Literature" is the first person to publish graphic novels. In this memoir, Cece Bell discusses her challenge to a young girl after losing their hearing in a humorous and sincere way. No one likes a different thing, and it is of course not useful to wear a bulky hearing aid tied to the chest. I read El Deafo and noticed that there were severe severe hearing impairment, loneliness when communicating, and in some respects similarities. The important thing is to find inner strength to accept our weaknesses and differences, and it will become stronger by that. Read the full story

El Deafo is a graphic novel written and interpreted by Cece Bell. This book is about loose autobiography of Bell's childhood era, and is making a living from her hearing impaired. However, all the characters in the book are rabbits. In an interview with Horn Book Magazine, Cece Bell says "What is the famous one of rabbits? Big ears, superb listening" makes irony for the characters she chose and their hearing loss. With a hearing aid she could listen to the world around me but she was kept away from some children of her age because she was seen as "distinctive". As she was keen to find real friends, this caused Cece's frustration and frustration, but often she had to accept someone's bad handling and made some friends I was afraid to lose. Because it allows she to hear everything she treats these emotions by treating the hearing aid as a superpower