About the Author
Donna Jo Napoli is an acclaimed and award-winning author of children's books. She won the Golden Kite Award for
Stones in Water in 1997. Her novel
Zel was named an American Bookseller Association Pick of the List, a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a BCCB Blue Ribbon, and a
School Library Journal Best Book, and a number of her other novels have been selected as ALA Best Books. Her recent picture books include
The Earth Shook and
Mama Miti. Donna Jo is the head of the linguistics department at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband and their children. You can visit her online at donnajonapoli.com
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