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Donna Jo Napoli

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Donna Jo Napoli (born February 28, 1948) is an American writer of children's and young adult fiction, as well as a prominent linguist. [1]

53 relations: Abrams Books, Amazon Publishing, American Sign Language, Bloomsbury Publishing, Bronwyn Bancroft, Cathie Felstead, Children's literature, Daughter of Venice, Dell Publishing, Dial Press, Dutton Children's Books, Dutton Penguin, English as a second or foreign language, Fairy tale, Fantasy, Florida, Folk dance, Gabi Swiatkowska, Gallaudet University Press, Georgetown University, Greenwillow, Hachette Books, Harcourt (publisher), HarperCollins, Harvard University, Henry Holt and Company, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale, Kadir Nelson, Lerner Publishing Group, Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Miami, Morphology (linguistics), National Geographic Society, Phonetics, Phonology, Poetics, Puffin Books, Random House, Romance languages, Scholastic Corporation, Simon & Schuster, Smith College, Stones in Water, Swarthmore College, Syntax, The Smile (book), Thomas & Friends merchandise, University of Michigan, ..., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Pennsylvania, Young adult fiction. Expand index (3 more) »

Abrams Books

Abrams, formerly Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (HNA), is an American publisher of art and illustrated books, children's books, and stationery.

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Amazon Publishing

Amazon Publishing (simply APub) is Amazon.com's book publishing unit launched in 2009.

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American Sign Language

American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Bloomsbury Publishing plc (formerly M.B.N.1 Limited and Bloomsbury Publishing Company Limited) is a British independent, worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.

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Bronwyn Bancroft

Bronwyn Bancroft (born 1958) is an Australian artist, notable for being amongst the first Australian fashion designers invited to show her work in Paris.

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Cathie Felstead

Cathie Felstead, born 1954 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, in the UK, is an English illustrator.

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Children's literature

Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children.

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Daughter of Venice

Daughter of Venice is an historical fiction/young adult novel, published in 2002 by Random House Inc.

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Dell Publishing

Dell Publishing, an American publisher of books, magazines and comic books, was founded in 1921 by George T. Delacorte Jr. with $10,000, two employees and one magazine title, ''I Confess'', and soon began turning out dozens of pulp magazines, which included penny-a-word detective stories, articles about the movies, and romance books (or "smoochies" as they were known in the slang of the day).

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Dial Press

The Dial Press was a publishing house founded in 1923 by Lincoln MacVeagh.

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Dutton Children's Books

Dutton Children's Books is a US publisher, a division of the Penguin Group, the children's book imprint associated with the Dutton adult division.

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Dutton Penguin

Dutton is an American book publisher, established in 1986 when its precursor E.P. Dutton was split by its owner the Penguin Group into Dutton and Dutton Children's Books.

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English as a second or foreign language

English as a second or foreign language is the use of English by speakers with different native languages.

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Fairy tale

A fairy tale, wonder tale, magic tale, or Märchen is folklore genre that takes the form of a short story that typically features entities such as dwarfs, dragons, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes, goblins, griffins, mermaids, talking animals, trolls, unicorns, or witches, and usually magic or enchantments.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often without any locations, events, or people referencing the real world.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Folk dance

A folk dance is developed by people that reflect the life of the people of a certain country or region.

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Gabi Swiatkowska

Gabi Swiatkowska (born 1970) is a Polish-born artist, musician, and children's author and illustrator.

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Gallaudet University Press

Gallaudet University Press (GUPress) is a publisher that focuses on issues relating to deafness and sign language.

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Georgetown University

Georgetown University is a private research university in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States.

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Greenwillow

Greenwillow is a musical with a book by Lesser Samuels and Frank Loesser and music and lyrics by Loesser.

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Hachette Books

Hachette Books, formerly Hyperion Books, is a general-interest book imprint division of the Hachette established in 1990.

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Harcourt (publisher)

Harcourt was a United States publishing firm with a long history of publishing fiction and nonfiction for adults and children.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. is one of the world's largest publishing companies and is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Henry Holt and Company

Henry Holt and Company is an American book publishing company based in New York City.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an educational and trade publisher in the United States.

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Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale

Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale is a 2007 young adult novel written by Donna Jo Napoli.

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Kadir Nelson

Kadir Nelson (born May 15, 1974) is an African-American artist, illustrator and author.

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Lerner Publishing Group

Lerner Publishing Group, based in Minneapolis in the U.S. state of Minnesota since its founding in 1959, is one of the largest independently owned children's book publishers in the United States.

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Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language, and involves an analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Miami

Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.

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Morphology (linguistics)

In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language.

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National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world.

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Phonetics

Phonetics (pronounced) is the branch of linguistics that studies the sounds of human speech, or—in the case of sign languages—the equivalent aspects of sign.

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Phonology

Phonology is a branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization of sounds in languages.

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Poetics

Poetics is the theory of literary forms and literary discourse.

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Puffin Books

Puffin Books is a longstanding children's imprint of the British publishers Penguin Books.

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Random House

Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.

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Romance languages

The Romance languages (also called Romanic languages or Neo-Latin languages) are the modern languages that began evolving from Vulgar Latin between the sixth and ninth centuries and that form a branch of the Italic languages within the Indo-European language family.

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Scholastic Corporation

Scholastic Corporation is an American multinational publishing, education and media company known for publishing, selling, and distributing books and educational materials for schools, teachers, parents, and children.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.

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Smith College

Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college with coed graduate and certificate programs in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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Stones in Water

Stones in Water is a 1997 young adult novel written by Donna Jo Napoli.

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Swarthmore College

Swarthmore College is a private liberal arts college located in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, southwest of Philadelphia.

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Syntax

In linguistics, syntax is the set of rules, principles, and processes that govern the structure of sentences in a given language, usually including word order.

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The Smile (book)

The Smile (2008) is one of Donna Jo Napoli's young adult novels.

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Thomas & Friends merchandise

Thomas & Friends merchandise has been produced to capitalize on the success of the television series Thomas & Friends (formerly Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends).

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University of Michigan

The University of Michigan (UM, U-M, U of M, or UMich), often simply referred to as Michigan, is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, also known as UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina, or simply Carolina, is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States.

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University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university located in University City section of West Philadelphia.

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Young adult fiction

Young adult fiction (YA) is a category of fiction published for readers in their youth.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Jo_Napoli

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