![]() ![]() Bell’s earnest rabbit/human characters, her ability to capture her own sonic universe (“eh sounz lah yur unnah wawah!”), and her invention of an alter ego-the cape-wearing El Deafo, who gets her through stressful encounters (“How can El Deafo free herself from the shackles of this weekly humiliation?” she asks as her mother drags her to another excruciating sign language class)-all combine to make this a standout autobiography. ![]() AAAID?”) and its joys, as when she discovers that the microphone picks up every word her teacher says anywhere in the school. Her graphic memoir records both the indignities of being a deaf child in a hearing community (“IS. A bout of childhood meningitis left Bell ( Rabbit & Robot: The Sleepover) deaf at age four, and she was prescribed a Phonic Ear, with a receiver draped across her chest and a remote microphone her teachers wore. ![]()
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