(Scroll down to see a very cool video of Cece drawing characters from Telgemeier's sequel to Smile, Sisters, and Raina drawing El Deafo!)Ī big part of what makes El Deafo so winning is thew character of Cece. Young Raina and young Cece are characters you want to spend time with, know more about and share in their triumphs and tough days.
While I never experienced the orthodontic trauma that Raina Telgemeier did or the loss of hearing that Cece Bell did, these masterful storytellers drew me into their stories, hooking me with their illustrative style and their fantastic writing. As school librarian, book reviewer and blurb contributor to El Deafo Travis Jonker noted in his review of El Deafo, "Part of what makes memoirs so appealing is their universality," and I couldn't agree more. Palacio, Telgemeier and Bell's amazing books about children struggling with the adversities of being physically different from your peers. Palacio, author of Wonder, and Raina Telgemeier, author of the graphic novel, Smile.
The review copy boasts stellar blurbs from, among others, R.J. Cece Bell's graphic novel memoir, El Deafo, with color by David Lasky, tells the story of losing 80% of her hearing at age four and has been getting a lot of well deserved advance attention.
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