The Gallaudet Eleven

“The point that the participants’ disability gave them the “right stuff” to make significant contributions to the great enterprise is firmly, and justly, made.”

–Booklist“A welcome acknowledgment of unsung figures.”–Kirkus Reviews

Kerry O’Malley Cerra is an award-winning author of the novels Just a Drop of Water, Hear Me, and Make a Little Wave. Kerry’s work has received praise from The New York Times, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, Booklist, VOYA, and The Horn Book, calling her stories moving, perceptive, well-developed, and woven with an expert hand. A deaf author herself (who now hears with the help of one cochlear implant), she’s passionate about books that depict d/Deaf and/or hearing-loss experiences for children. Kerry, a former high school media specialist and social studies teacher, lives in South Florida.

Kristina Gehrmann is an illustrator and graphic novelist, exploring historical and fantasy subjects in a detailed painterly style. Her graphic novel debut, Im Eisland, tells the story of the lost Franklin Expedition in a trilogy of three comics, the first of which won the German Children’s Literature Award. She is deaf since birth and currently lives in Hamburg, Germany, with her husband.