Tuesday, February 24, 2015

El Deafo

El Deafo by Cece Bell, 233 pages


This is a graphic novel autobiographical story of Cece when she was a child.  It tells the story of how she went deaf at age four and how she dealt with being deaf.    All fo the characters in the books are drawn as rabbits and the book goes through Cece’s fifth grade year.  She talks about how feeling self-conscious about wearing hearing aids and how much she wants to have friends that treat her the same as everyone else.  She even talks about her first crush.  This was a really cute story that deals with a very real issue that all kids deal with, being accepted for who you are.  Almost all kids deal with those feelings at some time or another and Bell handles it well in this story.  It’s funny, not preachy.  A lot of kids would really like this book.

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