William & Mary alumna Cece Bell ’92 has earned the Geisel Honor Award for her early childhood chapter book Rabbit and Robot: The Sleepover at the American Library Association’s (ALA) Youth Media Awards event. Bell will receive the award at the ALA Conference in June.
The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award is a literary award by the ALA that recognizes the author and illustrator of an outstanding book for beginning readers. The award is named for Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss.
This year’s award winner was Ethan Long for his book entitled, Up, Tall and High! Three Geisel Honors were given to: Mo Willems for Let’s Go for a Drive!; James Dean for Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons; and Bell.
Bell is a full-time author and illustrator, living and working in Virginia. She and her husband, Tom Angleberger '92, were both art majors at William & Mary. Angleberger is the author of the Oragami Yoda series. Last fall Bell and Angleberger returned to W&M for a book reading and signing at Swem Library. You can view photos from the event on the Swem Facebook page.
View more of Bell’s work on her website.