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Napoli had an undiagnosed eye disease as a kid, so she didn't fall in love with reading until she was ten. This bio has tons more information about her, too.

This site has everything you want to know about Donna Napoli, so check it out. Bonus feature: Cute pictures of her grandkids.

Learn about Napoli's writing process, her love of words, and more.

Our author's also an environmentalist—and she wrote a book with one of her daughters, who is a veterinarian.

You know that silly saying those who can do, those who can't teach? Not true with Napoli—she's a career professor.

Roger Sutton interviews Napoli.

Napoli talks about why kids need to read about hardship, and she builds a pretty compelling argument. This one's definitely worth watching to the end.

This page has a lot of video links to interviews—just click on a question toward the bottom of the page.

A photo collection that shows some of what Louisiana looks like when this story takes place.

There are tons of photos of the author here.

Do you see an alligator ready to chomp when you look at this map?