We also more clearly understand how Cece’s hearing impairment set her apart from her classmates and friends and how alone she felt. We learn to understand the communication hurdles Cece faced, and we learn how to more effectively interact with the deaf and hearing impaired. In her heart-warming graphic memoir El Deafo, Cece Bell describes with grace and humor how difficult it was growing up with hearing loss.

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The key is finding the inner strength to embrace our weaknesses and differences, and becoming stronger because of them. Reading El Deafo, we experience what it is like living with severe to profound hearing loss, we see how lonely it can be when communication is difficult, and at the same time we realize that all of us are similar in some ways and different in others. No one likes being different, and having to wear a bulky hearing aid strapped to her chest certainly didn’t help. In this graphic memoir, Cece Bell discusses with humor and honesty the challenges she faced as young girl after losing her hearing to illness. El Deafo’s Newbery Honor “for outstanding contribution to children’s literature” is the first given to a graphic novel. In honor of the Newbery Award Ceremony taking place later this month, this post takes a closer look at the 2015 Newbery Honor Book, El Deafo by Cece Bell.Įl Deafo, a 2015 Newbery Honor Book has also received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly.

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