As in her Sirena, Napoli populates this ambitious novel with classical literary figures, chief among them Pan, the half-goat, half-god associated with nature. While ...

Before creating Fish Girl, neither David Wiesner nor Donna Jo Napoli had ever written a graphic novel. Their collaboration follows a girl whose sweet face and mermaid tail make her the main attraction ...

Leaving the comfortable, familiar world of Minnesota behind, 11-year-old Jackie finds herself absorbed with all things foreign on a trip to Italy with her businessman father. Everything is different: ...

There have been other children’s books on the life of 2004 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Wangari Maathai, and it’s a testament particularly to the power of Kadir Nelson’s images that this book so ...

Donna Jo Napoli, a professor at Swarthmore College and world-renowned linguist, ASL advocate and children’s book author, spoke at Duke during ASL awareness week. By combining her academic expertise ...