Donna Jo Napoli

When a marauding slave ship captures her sister, Melkorka, eight-year-old Brigid is lost at sea but survives, disguised as a boy, and sets out to rescue Melkorka, and as the years pass she becomes a woman, reputed to be fierce enough to conquer a man, but desirous only of reuniting with her family.

Rocky the dog has a difficult life when he first moves into a house with five cats.

Tired of his mother's overprotectiveness and intrigued by the life of African American explorer Matthew Henson, twelve-year-old Alvin travels north and spends a season with a trapper near the Arctic Circle.

Upon returning to Italy, fourteen-year-old Roberto struggles to survive, first on his own, then as a member of the resistance, fighting against the Nazi occupiers while yearning to reach home safely and for an end to the war.

Elaborates on the events recounted in the fairy tale, "Rumpelstiltskin," in which a strange little man helps a miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.

"A tortoise from the Galapagos Islands goes on an adventure--at her own speed"--

Bobby the bonobo is not accepted by the chimps at the zoo where they all live, but after he has an afternoon adventure in the city and gets a mohawk hair cut, the chimps change their minds about him.

Little Parisa-Farsi, left alone after an earthquake demolishes her home of Bam, Iran, inspires the animals around her to put aside their differences and revel in the simple delights that unite them.

This is the companion DVD to the popular bilingual primer Handy Stories to Read and Sign. Written by linguistics professor Donna Jo Napoli and certified interpreter Doreen DeLuca, these stories take a fun, illustrated approach to help beginning readers, both deaf and hearing, improve their comprehension of both English and American Sign Language. Stories included are: School Signs; The Haunted House; Thanksgiving Soon!; Winter Solstice; and Class...