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A review by crizzle
Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller by Joseph Lambert
5.0
Blown away.
I learned so much about Annie Sullivan; what an amazing, stubborn, passionate girl. She grew up as an orphan in an “almshouse” amongst the rats and the dead and when she got to move into a school for the blind at 14 years old, she could barely spell her own name, yet went on to give Helen the tools to live a vibrant, successful life... by spelling. We get to see before and after that miraculous transformation through the artwork in this graphic novel, which I wouldn’t call beautiful, but the story and symbolism in the art is heart-wrenchingly so.
I learned so much about Annie Sullivan; what an amazing, stubborn, passionate girl. She grew up as an orphan in an “almshouse” amongst the rats and the dead and when she got to move into a school for the blind at 14 years old, she could barely spell her own name, yet went on to give Helen the tools to live a vibrant, successful life... by spelling. We get to see before and after that miraculous transformation through the artwork in this graphic novel, which I wouldn’t call beautiful, but the story and symbolism in the art is heart-wrenchingly so.