“Um, I hate to disappoint you, but I’m not sure this is going to work.” Albert informs the mother cardinal.īut the cardinals don’t seem to listen to Albert, so Albert has no choice but to stand at his window with his hand hanging out. While Albert stares dumbfounded, the cardinal proceeds to build an entire nest on Albert’s palm, and finishes by laying a bright blue egg in the nest. To his surprise, the cardinal drops a stick in Albert’s outstretched hand. But one day, when he sticks his hand out as usual to test the weather, a cardinal flies by. Whenever he sticks his hand out, it is always too something, so Albert always ends up staying inside. Press, 1996), Humour in sign languages: The linguistic underpinnings (with Rachel Sutton-Spence) (Dublin: Trinity Press, 2009), and L'animale parlante ('The speaking animal') (2004), written with Marina Nespor, along with dozens of articles in the scholarly journals.Every morning, Albert sticks his hand out the window to test the weather. Press, 1993), Linguistics: An introduction (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1979), Syntax: Theory and Problems (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Her publications in linguistics include Syntactic argumentation (with Emily Rando). Napoli has won numerous awards for her work, including the Golden Kite Award given by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (for Stones in Water, and honor book Breath), the Sydney Taylor Award given by the Association of Jewish Libraries (for Stones in Water, and, honor book, The King of Mulberry Street and the Parents' Choice Gold Award (for Alligator Bayou and Silver awards for North and The King of Mulberry Street).

Other children's stories are historical fiction based in Italy, including Daughter of Venice, For the Love of Venice, and The Smile.

Many of her children's books are retellings of fairy tales, including The Magic Circle, Crazy Jack, Spinners, Zel, Breath, Bound, Beast, and The Wager for older children, and The Prince of the Pond, Ugly, and Mogo the Third Warthog for younger children. Her children's books have been translated into many languages, including different sign languages. She has worked in syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, historical and comparative linguistics, Romance studies, structure of American Sign Language, poetics, writing for ESL students, and mathematical and linguistic analysis of folk dance. Fantasy for young people, children's books, picture books

A Single Pearl by Donna Jo Napoli