The memoir and miniseries both ably portray the young author’s significant hearing difficulties, although they do so in slightly different ways. A three-episode animated miniseries adaptation, which Bell narrates, premieres on Apple TV+ on Jan. In an author’s note, she states that the memoir is mildly fictionalized, with some composite characters and some invented conversations the most notable diversion from reality, though, is that everyone in it is depicted as an anthropomorphic cartoon bunny. With wonderful, colorful illustrations and a sharp sense of humor, the author tells of how, after being hospitalized for meningitis at the age of 4, she lost most of her hearing, and how she dealt with the challenges of living with deafness as an elementary-school kid in 1970s Virginia. Cece Bell’s 2014 graphic memoir for children, El Deafo, was not only a Newbury Honor book but also a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, and it’s easy to understand why.
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