Donna Jo Napoli
Autore di Beast
Sull'Autore
Donna Jo Napoli was born on February 28, 1948. She received a B.A. in mathematics, an M.A. in Italian literature, and a Ph.D. in general and romance linguistics from Harvard University. She has taught on the university level since 1970, is widely published in scholarly journals, and has received mostra altro numerous grants and fellowships in the area of linguistics. In the area of linguistics, she has authored five books, co-authored six books, edited one book, and co-edited five books. She is also a published poet and co-editor of four volumes of poetry. Her first middle grade novel, Soccer Shock, was published in 1991. Her other novels include the Zel, Beast, The Wager, Lights on the Nile, Skin, Storm, Hidden, and Dark Shimmer. She is also the author of several picture books including Flamingo Dream, The Wishing Club: A Story About Fractions, Corkscrew Counts: A Story About Multiplication, The Crossing, A Single Pearl, and Hands and Hearts. She has received several awards including the New Jersey Reading Association's M. Jerry Weiss Book Award for The Prince of the Pond and the Golden Kite Award for Stones in Water. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Serie
Opere di Donna Jo Napoli
Treasury of Egyptian Mythology: Classic Stories of Gods, Goddesses, Monsters & Mortals (2013) 365 copie
Bridges between psychology and linguistics a Swarthmore festschrift for Lila Gleitman (1991) — A cura di — 3 copie
Angelwing 1 copia
Hush: A Irish Princess' Tale 1 copia
Der Prinz vom Teich. ( Ab 8 J.) 1 copia
The Bravest Thing 1 copia
Angelwings: No Fair! 1 copia
Angelwings: Little Creatures 1 copia
Angelwings: On Her Own 1 copia
Angelwings: One Leap Forward 1 copia
Books 1 copia
Angelwings 1 copia
Bring Wine and Crusty Bread 1 copia
Opere correlate
Contemporary research in Romance linguistics papers from the 22nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, El… (1995) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1948-02-28
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Miami, Florida, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Miami, Florida, USA
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA - Istruzione
- Harvard University (A.B. ∙ Mathematics)
Harvard University (Ph.D. ∙ Romance Languages and Literatures ∙ 1973) - Attività lavorative
- linguist
college professor
children's book author - Organizzazioni
- Swarthmore College
Utenti
Discussioni
Fantasy, village 'witch' becomes possessed and is burned by Hansel and Gretel in Name that Book (Ottobre 2012)
Recensioni
Liste
Five in a Row (1)
Bildungsromans (1)
Fantasy Fiction (1)
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 120
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 12,711
- Popolarità
- #1,841
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 494
- ISBN
- 544
- Lingue
- 9
- Preferito da
- 26