Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller

Oh, this one got me right in the heart.

I knew nothing of Annie Sullivan, the young woman who was Helen Keller's lifelong teacher. This is a short biographical comix about Sullivan, who had a very difficult life indeed. Told with gentleness, humanity, and care, we jump back and forth between Sullivan's work with a very young Helen Keller, to Sullivan's own childhood in a western Massachusetts poorhouse.

The book could have had larger font and less cramped panel ordering, or maybe I'm just getting old. But, really, a phenomenal story.