![]() ![]() ![]() She wanted to focus on reading lips and had absolutely no interest in learning sign language (which I think might have been a mistake on her part) and when she’s mainstreamed during early childhood, she’s afraid her classmates will laugh at her and treat her like an outsider. El Deafo is a gentle yet painfully honest account of the author’s challenges growing up deaf while surrounded almost entirely by people who could hear.Ĭece Bell could hear things just as well as everybody else until a bout of meningitis left her profoundly deaf when she was a toddler. Genre: Juvenile Fiction/Graphic Novel/MemoirĪt first I had my doubts about this book, probably because I saw that all the characters were drawn as anthropomorphic bunnies so I thought it would probably be really childish (not to mention it’s specifically marketed to kids, not cynics in their 20’s.) I had heard generally good things about it though, and when I finally read it I could definitely see why. ![]()
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