If you have read anything by Donna Jo Napoli, you would already know how she takes old legends and faerie tales and makes them sparking with new life and love. This is definitely an example of her ability to do so, although not one of my most favorite works by her, it is a very absorbing tale, rich with detail, lust, and the suspicion of unrequited love. Here, the heart-breaking tale of the half-goat, half-god, Pan is brought to life. Pan has always been happy. He is loved by both the gods and the goddesses, satisfied with frolicking about with the myaids of the wood which he lives in. His father is Hermes, of the winged slippers, Hermes, who guides the dead to Hades, his mother, a nymph whom he has never met, who abandoned him with his father at birth. Pan is joy. Pan is playful. "Perfect Pan" say the maiyads. "Pan of panic" says his father. Pan is happy, yes. Until he meets Igphenia. Igphenia is daughter of a king and queen, only she is really the daughter of Helen, of Troy. Igphenia, who knows as much about herbs and plants, if not more, than Pan himself. Igphenia, who is a mortal. "Never fall in love with a mortal," the goddesses tell him. "There is too much pain." Yes, Pan's story is one of pain. He meets her in a field, where they talk about herbs, sharing new remedies with each other. And then she goes, back to her mother and father, and he cannot stop thinking about her. And later, after another accidental meeting, he is even more infuatuated with her. In his mind he denies that he is in love with her, in his mind and his mouth, yet he is. Pan of Pain. In the end, he proves his love, his deep love, more than a simple infuatuation, when he makes his ultimate sacrifice for her. This is a lovely book with a horribly sad ending, an ending that will stay with you long after you read the last words.

Donna Jo Napoli is a sought-after author of fiction for high school age students. Girls, especially, enjoy her characters and conflicts. If you like this book, find her other fiction for the same audience.

A little girl learned that you can live without a stuffed Giraffe. This was my 3rd favorite angelwings book.

At 15, I'm probably too old to fully enjoy the book, but it was pretty neat. This brother and sister are on a train in Australia when the come across a pair of bird smugglers who, realizing that someone knows about them, throw themfrom the train into the middle of the desert. Now they have to reach one of those radio stations scattered all about the desert to send for the police before the thieves get away. Suspense!

Donna Jo Napoli is a wonderful syntactician and teacher, and the problem sets alone in this book were worth the buy for me. They can be frustrating at times, but force you to think in ways that are new and very helpful, even at times exciting. However, it is true that, especially if the reader has never met or taken a class with Napoli, there are certain learning styles that will have trouble with this book. It's all inductive reasoning, and Napoli does not always follow a linear organization, so if the reader is the type of learner who likes to have things laid out in a very clear, systematic manner, or who is easily distracted and frustrated by tangents, they will have difficulty with this book. For the rest of us, the tangents can be fascinating. Finally, it should be noted that there are no "answers" provided for the problem sets; they are exercises in reasoning, but if you get stuck there's nothing to peek at. There are, however, references cited for the problem sets in the bibliography.

The best thing about Donna Jo in my opinion is that, unlike other syntacticians, she doesn't tell you things. She makes you come up with your own ideas, and discard them if they turn out to be invalid. I bought the book and inted to keep it.

Napoli's syntax text is good in that it covers a wide range of problems, theories, and ways of working through syntax. Focusing on General Binding Theory, Napoli leads us to conclusions through inductive learning methods. This gets very frustrating at times for students because it seems that she never actually tells the reader anything; merely waits for them to discover everything without too much help. She also has some very unorthodox views of basic syntactic categories (such as Indirect Objects) that can be very disconcerting to the innocent Linguistics student. Many students find this book frustrating and annoying, but do learn an awful lot by the end, if they can make it that far.

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Have you ever read a book where you can switch from frog to human, and back again? Hi, I've just read Jimmy The Pickpocket of the Palace, by Donna Jo Napoli.

In this book, the Hag needs the crystal ring to do terrible things with it. The only problem is that the Hag thinks the ring is at the bottom of the frog pond where Jimmy lives. The Hag will do anything to get the ring, even dry up the pond. If you want to see if Jimmy can get the ring, and give it to the Hag before she can dry up the pond, read the book to find out.

Jimmy and I have some things in common, but not many. One thing in common is we both are brave. Another is that we're both kind.

The proper audience for this book is ages 6-12 years old. This is because this was not a challenging book to read.

If you want to see it Jimmy can save the pond, read this book to find out.

Have you ever read a book where a frog gets turned into a human? Well, I just read Jimmy, The Pickpocket Of The Palace and this is what happens.

In this book, an evil hag turns the main character, Jimmy (a frog), into a boy. She does this by using an evil ring. So now Jimmy is on a mission to find the ring and turn back into a frog. But, there are many obstacles in the way.

My favorite part in the book is when the hag turns herself into a rock. It is my favorite because it is when the pond becomes safe.

I think that this book is for 4th-5th graders because it might be challenging for someone younger. There are also words that they might not know. I rate this book 4 out of 5 stars because sometimes it was boring.

I enjoyed the book very much. What will happen to Jimmy? Will he ever be a frog again? Will his family be okay? Read Jimmy, The Pickpocket of the Palace to find out!

This book was really terrific! It had all the things I like and frogs too! Frogs are very interesting. The end was very sad, I almost started to cry. This book is about a frog named Jimmy, there is a person called the hag who puts a spell on Jimmy. She didn't finish the spell because she didn't have her magic ring. The spell will be broken when a girl kisses him. Who is the girl? Read this book to find out.

When Eileen's father moves out (taking the piano with him) she she struggles through shock and grief which she cannot express or share with anyone -- not even her best friend. Her only mode of expression is in her piano lessons (which she must now practice at school). Through these practice sessions she eventually becomes friends with the kindly janitor who helps her come to grips with her struggles and her pain.

This is a thoughtful story exploring the ache and confusion that divorce brings. Eileen's bewilderment and inner rage is believable but even with that, the story is lacking something. Still it's a good novel to give to a child going through a parent's divorce.

--this book attempts to TEACH important lessons about the value of life while VIOLATING those very same lessons when they pertain to live things other than people!--until we learn to share the planet w/ALL the creatures who live here, we are hurting ourselves most of all.

--This book perpetuates the cruel practice of breeding domestic animals for no good reason.

The story of Laurel and Bun Bun is one that you may relate to. When Laurel breeds her rabbit, the mother refuses to care for her young and they die. After trying again, we see somewhat of a repeat, but Laurel tries to come to the babies' rescue. Kids will like to hear the story of the 6 baby bunnies and how Laurel fights to care for them, while she also fights two other small conflicts.

This was a good book in general, altough it doesn't cause too many emotions, if might be nice as an entertaining story for younger children.

This book is not intended for a clear understanding. The author does a terrible job of explaining and/ or detailing any element of morphology and syntax. This book may be enjoyable for the more advanced linguist but even then I have my doubts. Please do not torture any linguistic student with it.

This book was absolutely terrible. I can't believe that this woman was actually awarded a PhD and then a professorship at any university. This book is the epitome of anti-academic writing.

A while back, I took a syntax and morphology class that used Napoli's book as its text, something which didn't bother me much since I already felt confident in the subject, having read much on my own beforehand from such clear concise works on the subject as those by George Yule and Elizabeth Cowper. With a strong background, then, Napoli's book seemed to me insightful, open-minded and challenging, since it takes nothing for granted but instead requires students to think their way through every building block of linguistic theory.
Unfortunately, however, I was the minority in that class, as all but those who were in my study group (and thus took my advice on ordering, as supplementary reading, the aforementioned Yule and Cowper texts) were, by the semester's end, still in the dark about how to tree-out the most basic verb-phrases, determiner phrases, etc.
A major reason for this is that, unlike Yule or Cowper, Napoli doesn't provide any tables or lists which group common terms. To keep things simple, let's say that if she introduced grammatical categories, there wouldn't be a simple list, such as "noun", "verb", "adjective", "preposition", et cetera, but rather the term "noun" might be introduced in one part of the chapter, "verb" in another seemingly unconnected part thereof, and "preposition" not even in the chapter proper, instead being introduced during the exercise set after the chapter. This doesn't sound bad since most people are already familiar with such terms as "noun", "verb", etc. from their general K-12 education. Yet this can be nearly traumatizing if a student is expected to work with such theta-role terms as "agent", "patient", "experiencer", "percept", etc. and can't even find all the terms in one convenient list or table (but rather scattered, as mentioned, in various parts of the chapter and subsequent exercises).
Equally bad (yet seemingly worse being compounded by the aforementioned lack of neatly listed terms) is that Napoli doesn't provide enough models of trees in the syntax section. As such, unless the students take good notes of every type of tree construction as given by their teacher, they have no way of learning how to construct them, and if they've bought this book with the intention of learning without a class, too bad.
Such lack of organization, indeed, makes the book useless not only as an introduction but rather even as a reference tool, since reference relies on being able to make facts or groups thereof quickly and easily accessible. It also makes misrepresentative Napoli's back-cover claim: "Reader-friendly and highly accessible, the book assumes no previous background in linguistics", a fib so fantastic that I can't believe Oxford University Press would allow it.
Finally, although Oxford's Press has since the Middle Ages often been associated with some of the best work published in the Anglophonic world, their paperbacks (especially the larger ones) tend to be unexpectedly poorly bound. And Napoli's text is no exception, for which reason it may be useful for one to keep in mind as a fire-side reader (since its easily-removable pages provide convenient fire-fodder) or (for similar reasons) as a bathroom reader.