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Creative storyteller and arts consultant Dr. Gail N. Herman has performed and taught storytelling extensively throughout the United States, as well as in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Jamaica, Germany, Ghana, India, and the Virgin Islands. Besides performing for students in schools and libraries, Dr. Herman works with teachers and helping professionals to infuse storytelling and the kinesthetic, musical, and spatial aspects of learning into reading and other curriculum areas of our schools. She teaches for Lesley University, MA, Garrett College, MD, and The University of Connecticut (CONFRATUTE) in CT. Gail has directed the Tall Tale Liar’s Festival in MD for 16 years.

Dr. Herman has conducted hundreds of in-service storytelling workshops. She...more Creative storyteller and arts consultant Dr. Gail N. Herman has performed and taught storytelling extensively throughout the United States, as well as in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Jamaica, Germany, Ghana, India, and the Virgin Islands. Besides performing for students in schools and libraries, Dr. Herman works with teachers and helping professionals to infuse storytelling and the kinesthetic, musical, and spatial aspects of learning into reading and other curriculum areas of our schools. She teaches for Lesley University, MA, Garrett College, MD, and The University of Connecticut (CONFRATUTE) in CT. Gail has directed the Tall Tale Liar’s Festival in MD for 16 years.

Dr. Herman has conducted hundreds of in-service storytelling workshops. She also teaches art appreciation through stories, sound, and gesture as a guest in classes at George Mason University and Maryland Institute, College of Art and at the University of Connecticut. She presents many storytelling workshops and keynotes to state educational and other organizations such as LANES, NSN, Confratute, NAEYC, NAGC, and AEGUS.

She was an invited keynoter at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, and the New Ways Of Learning: Spotlight on the Multiple Intelligences Conference sponsored by Zephyr Press in Tucson, AZ. She performed at the Albert Schweitzer Symposium at the United Nations in NYC, at the Chautauqua Institute in Chautauqua, NY, the WV Storytelling Festival, the Harvest Moon Festival in WV, and the Northeast Storytelling Festival in Historic Gettysburg.

Dr. Herman worked as a consultant with Dr. Patricia Hollingsworth on four education grants to train teachers to work with economically disadvantaged students with high potential at the University school in Tulsa. Her job was to infuse the kinesthetic arts and storytelling into the curriculum. Dr. Herman also worked as an enrichment consultant and storyteller in Cherry Creek Schools and Littleton Schools near Denver, Colorado. She works with Drs. Joseph Renzulli and Sally Reis at the University of Connecticut for the institute/conference called CONFRATUTE, where she teaches storytelling and movement applications to the classroom as well as Primary Grade Enrichment (with Dr. Susan Baum).

Dr. Herman has received many grants including a Laurel Arts Grant, Bluemont Concert Series, local Arts Council Grants, MD and WV Humanities Council grants, and MD State Arts Council Residency and Artist in Education (AIE) grants. She continues her work on Coal Talk Oral Histories. Most recently she received a grant from MBEC to collect stories in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

Dr. Herman taught at WVU as Visiting Assistant Professor, was a primary grade teacher, and a gifted and early childhood teacher for over thirteen years. She taught in the New Jersey, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Maryland public schools. She was a regular classroom teacher, a Helping Teacher, and an Enrichment Teacher. She has taught learning disabled, underachieving, as well as gifted students. Presently, she teaches at three colleges and universities in her specialized fields of education, storytelling, creative arts in learning, gifted education, and early childhood curriculum. (less)

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Average rating: 3.92 · 3,254 ratings · 266 reviews · 195 distinct works

	The Magic School Bus Blows Its Top: A Book About Volcanoes by Gail Herman, Joanna Cole, Bob Ostrom (Illustrations) 4.32 avg rating — 935 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Dulcie's Taste of Magic (Tales of Pixie Hollow, #11) 4.08 avg rating — 266 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Fira and the Full Moon (Tales of Pixie Hollow, #6) 3.88 avg rating — 258 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Silvermist and the Ladybug Curse (Tales of Pixie Hollow, #12) 3.93 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Sea Monster Scare (Scooby-Doo! Readers, #12) by Gail Herman, Duendes del Sur (Illustrator) 3.73 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Jurassic Park: the Junior Novelization by Gail Herman, Michael Crichton, David Koepp 3.37 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Mummies At The Mall (Scooby-doo Readers, #11 - Level 2) by Gail Herman, Duendes del Sur (Illustrator) 4.19 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Myka Finds Her Way (Tales of Pixie Hollow, #17) by Gail Herman, Walt Disney Company (Illustrator) 4.05 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Disney Fairies Collection #6: Dulcie's Taste of Magic; Silvermist and the Ladybug Curse 3.95 avg rating — 40 ratings	My rating:
	Clifford the Big Red Dog: The Big White Ghost (Big Red Reader Series) by Gail Herman, Ken Edwards (Illustrations) 4.06 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2003	My rating:

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Scooby-Doo! Readers (31 books)
by Gail Herman, Duendes del Sur (Illustrator)

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“That's why I bake. To fill fairies with goodness."

And it was true, she realized. She didn't run the kitchen just to boss other fairies around. She didn't give orders just to make herself feel important. Well, at least she wouldn't anymore. No. The day before, she hadn't missed that part of her job at all. She had missed the baking. She had missed creating something for others to enjoy.

And, oh, how she wanted to go back to work!”
― Gail Herman, Dulcie's Taste of Magic

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