She met fellow art major and future husband, writer Tom Angleberger, who is responsible for the Origami Yoda series, at the College. For her book El Deafo, she won the Newbery Medal and Honor and the Eisner Awardīell's other books include I Yam a Donkey, Chuck and Woodchuck, the Inspector Flytrap series (with Tom Angleberger), Rabbit & Robot and Ribbit, Crankee Doodle (with Tom Angleberger), Bug Patrol (with Denise Mortensen), Itty Bitty, two chunky board books, the Sock Monkey series and Bee Wigged. Bell named her character, Jerry Bee from Bee Wigged, for the School of VCD's own Jerry Kalback, former professor and undergraduate coordinator.īell lives and grew up in Virginia, where she also completed her undergraduate degree at the College of William and Mary. The award is named for Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. The Geisel Award recognizes authors and illustrators for "the most distinguished American book" for beginning readers. Cece Bell, children's book author and illustrator and School of Visual Communication Design alumna, earned the Geisel Honor Award for her early childhood chapter book Rabbit and Robot: The Sleepover from the American Library Association (ALA).
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