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Gail Herman

Gail Herman has written many books for children, including easy-to-reads such as Flower Girl, Otto the Cat, What a Hungry Puppy, and Step into Reading's own The Lion and the Mouse and There Is a Town. She has also written has written several biographies and nonfiction books, including Who Was Jackie Robinson? and What Is the World Series?  She lives in Newton, Massachusetts.
¿Qué fue el Holocausto? (What Was the Holocaust? Spanish Edition)
¿Qué es la Serie Mundial?
Who Was E. B. White?
Boo on the Loose (Disney/Pixar Monsters, Inc.)
What Are the Winter Olympics?
What Are the Paralympic Games?
What Is the Stanley Cup?
What Is Climate Change?
What Was the Holocaust?
Who Was Coretta Scott King?
Time for School, Little Dinosaur
What Are the Summer Olympics?
Who Is Derek Jeter?
Climbing Everest (Totally True Adventures)
What Is the World Series?
Who Is Wayne Gretzky?
Who Was Davy Crockett?
Who Was Jackie Robinson?
Lucky Goes to School
The Lion and the Mouse
Otto the Cat
What a Hungry Puppy!

Books

¿Qué fue el Holocausto? (What Was the Holocaust? Spanish Edition)
¿Qué es la Serie Mundial?
Who Was E. B. White?
Boo on the Loose (Disney/Pixar Monsters, Inc.)
What Are the Winter Olympics?
What Are the Paralympic Games?
What Is the Stanley Cup?
What Is Climate Change?
What Was the Holocaust?
Who Was Coretta Scott King?
Time for School, Little Dinosaur
What Are the Summer Olympics?
Who Is Derek Jeter?
Climbing Everest (Totally True Adventures)
What Is the World Series?
Who Is Wayne Gretzky?
Who Was Davy Crockett?
Who Was Jackie Robinson?
Lucky Goes to School
The Lion and the Mouse
Otto the Cat
What a Hungry Puppy!

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