Cece Bell. Abrams/Amulet, $21.95 (248p) ISBN 978-1-4197-1020-9
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. Her graphic memoir records both the...
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Cece Bell. Clarion, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-544-08720-0
Newbery Honoree Bell (El Deafo)
creates a laugh-out-loud dialogue in the
tradition of “Who’s on First?” or Lane Smith’s It’s a Book. “I yam a donkey!” a googly-eyed donkey proclaims. A bespectacled yam objects. “What did you say? ‘I yam a donkey?’
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Cece Bell. Clarion, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-328-52611-3
Donkey and Yam (I Yam a Donkey!) are back, still divided by a common language. This time, the contretemps trigger is homonyms, thanks to the introduction of a “lady sheep” who is the object of Yam’s affections. “This is Ewe,” Yam says. “That is me?”
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Cece Bell, Author, Cece Bell, Illustrator . Candlewick $13.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1962-6
Those who resist laundering their plush toys (or bathing themselves) will appreciate Bell's imaginatively silly debut. In this mock Tinseltown saga, a smudged Sock Monkey tears open an invitation to an award ceremony. "He was a nominee for...
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Cece Bell, Author, Cece Bell, Illustrator . Candlewick $9.99 (22p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3616-6
Where does a tiny dog find just the right decor for his hollowed-out-bone house? Why, the “teeny-weeny department” at a huge store downtown, of course! Such is the premise of this sweet and silly picture book that introduces a sunny pup...
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Cece Bell, Author, Cece Bell, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2392-0
After taking Tinseltown by storm in Sock Monkey Goes to Hollywood: A Star Is Bathed, the tweedy star now seeks a dance partner for the Big Celebrity Dance in Sock Monkey Boogie-Woogie: A Friend Is Made by Cece Bell. After the auditions he holds go...
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Cece Bell. Candlewick, $14.99 (56p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5475-7
Meet the newest odd couple in the
early reader section: fussy, compulsive Rabbit and overly logical Robot. The book’s four chapters, written almost entirely in dialogue, correspond to the plan for the friends’ eagerly anticipated sleepover: make...
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Cece Bell. Candlewick, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-7524-0
A first-grader named Caroline narrates this beguilingly offbeat story from Bell (I Yam a Donkey), drawn in the artist's characteristic childlike style. During show-and-tell one day, Woodchuck, her classmate Chuck's pet, dazzles the class with a...
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Cece Bell. Candlewick, $12.99 (72p) ISBN 978-0-7636-7936-1
The title says it all: this early reader comic by Newbery Honor author Bell features plenty of bonkers humor. Four vignettes pair Chick, a dainty yellow bird, with a clonking human called Brain, who possesses an exposed brain, a pair of heart-printed
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Cece Bell. Walker US, $19.99 (64p) ISBN 978-1-5362-2624-9
Newbery Honoree Bell creates an entire high-fidelity world with this clever, irresistibly prodigious abecedarian, which features album cover art and one song’s worth of liner-note lyrics from 26 invented animal recording artists. The creaturely...
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Edited by Jennifer L. Holm, Matt Holm, and Jarrett J. Krosoczka. Random, $7.99 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-0-553-51264-9
Comics creators including Cece Bell, Jeffrey Brown, Nathan Hale, and Cecil Castellucci and Sara Varon let loose on lunchtime in this second Comics Squad outing. In Bell’s standout story, Ellie’s reliance on her same-every-day lunch collides with her
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