Donna Jo Napoli
Auteur de Beast
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Donna Jo Napoli
Treasury of Greek Mythology: Classic Stories of Gods, Goddesses, Heroes & Monsters (2011) 589 exemplaires
Treasury of Egyptian Mythology: Classic Stories of Gods, Goddesses, Monsters & Mortals (2013) 368 exemplaires
Treasury of Norse Mythology: Stories of Intrigue, Trickery, Love, and Revenge (2015) 225 exemplaires
Tales From the Arabian Nights: Stories of Adventure, Magic, Love, and Betrayal (2016) 91 exemplaires
Signs and Voices: Deaf Culture, Identity, Language, and Arts (2008) — Directeur de publication — 9 exemplaires
Bridges between psychology and linguistics a Swarthmore festschrift for Lila Gleitman (1991) — Directeur de publication — 3 exemplaires
Angelwing 1 exemplaire
The Bravest Thing 1 exemplaire
Hush: A Irish Princess' Tale 1 exemplaire
Jimmy the pic pocket of the palace 1 exemplaire
Ksiega tysiaca i jednej nocy 1 exemplaire
Der Prinz vom Teich. ( Ab 8 J.) 1 exemplaire
On Guard by Donna Jo Napoli (1997-01-30) 1 exemplaire
Angelwings: No Fair! 1 exemplaire
Angelwings: Little Creatures 1 exemplaire
Angelwings: On Her Own 1 exemplaire
Angelwings: One Leap Forward 1 exemplaire
Books 1 exemplaire
The Two Si's of Italian An Analysis of Reflexive, Inchoative, And Definitive Subject Sentences in Modern Standard… 1 exemplaire
Angelwings 1 exemplaire
Bring Wine and Crusty Bread 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
First Kiss (Then Tell): A Collection of True Lip-Locked Moments (2007) — Contributeur — 94 exemplaires
Contemporary research in Romance linguistics papers from the 22nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, El… (1995) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1948-02-28
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Miami, Florida, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Miami, Florida, USA
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA - Études
- Harvard University (A.B. ∙ Mathematics)
Harvard University (Ph.D. ∙ Romance Languages and Literatures ∙ 1973) - Professions
- linguist
college professor
children's book author - Organisations
- Swarthmore College
Membres
Discussions
Fantasy, village 'witch' becomes possessed and is burned by Hansel and Gretel à Name that Book (Octobre 2012)
Critiques
Narrated mainly in the second person ("We fly, all of us together"), this is a poetic explanation of how murmurations of starlings form. Back matter includes a more straightforward explanation. Watercolor, pencil, and digital collage art combine to make beautiful color gradients for the sky on each page; outlines and edges are sometimes sharp, sometimes blurred.
I have mixed feelings for this book; on the one hand the story moves along at a good pace and you can see Xing Xing's life (how she is able to draw small comfort from just being called her name, how strongly she believes in the spirits of her father and mother, her stepmother's disdain) and you are given a very detailed accounting of what life could have been like back then. From Xing Xing's unwavering sense of duty to Wei Ping's selfishness and self-delusions and to Stepmother's (who is given no other name) obvious abuse of Xing Xing as a punishment for her husband caring for her more.
My main concern was the quick way that Xing Xing gains her confidence (in herself and trusting the future). The book isn't very long, but up until the last quarter of the book she accepts her fate, does her best to make the most of things and doesn't resent anyone. Indeed if her Stepmother hadn't done something so heinous, I doubt she would have spoken up for herself at all. Which is a crying shame because Xing Xing in the last five pages is very interesting!
The book however, like Napoli's other fairy tale retellings, offers a different look at what has been done to death. A fish as a 'fairy godmother', bibbity-boppity-boo indeed.… (plus d'informations)
My main concern was the quick way that Xing Xing gains her confidence (in herself and trusting the future). The book isn't very long, but up until the last quarter of the book she accepts her fate, does her best to make the most of things and doesn't resent anyone. Indeed if her Stepmother hadn't done something so heinous, I doubt she would have spoken up for herself at all. Which is a crying shame because Xing Xing in the last five pages is very interesting!
The book however, like Napoli's other fairy tale retellings, offers a different look at what has been done to death. A fish as a 'fairy godmother', bibbity-boppity-boo indeed.… (plus d'informations)
Listes
THE WAR ROOM (2)
Bildungsromans (1)
Fantasy Fiction (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 121
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 12,781
- Popularité
- #1,835
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 495
- ISBN
- 544
- Langues
- 9
- Favoris
- 26
The main character Brigid is very strong and I loved how she broke through conventions to live the life she needed to. In this society women and especially foreign women are treated as second class citizens but Brigid refuses to be hidden away and she continues to look for her lost sister. She faces many obstacles but she intelligently overcomes each one and ends up building great character.
This book was intense, exciting and very powerful with a lesson that you don't need to give up on a dream even if it might be very difficult.… (plus d'informations)