Kate FarrellKate Farrell is a graduate of the School of Library and Information Studies, UC Berkeley. She has been a language arts classroom teacher (pre-school and grades kindergarten through twelfth), author, librarian, university lecturer, and storyteller in orthern California since 1966. She founded the Word Weaving Storytelling Project, in collaboration with the California State Department of Education funded by grants from Zellerbach Family Fund, San Francisco, 1979-1991, to train educators at all levels, and published numerous educational materials.She is the author of Word Weaving: A Storytelling Workbook, 1980; coauthor of a monograph, Effects of Storytelling: An Ancient Art for Modern Classrooms, 1982; author of Word Weaving: A Teaching Sourcebook, 1984; producer and coauthor of a training videotape, "Word Weaving: The Art of Storytelling," 1983, distributed by the University of California, Berkeley; and author of the professional book, Storytelling: A Guide for Teachers, Scholastic, 1991. She is also senior author of Storytelling in Our Multicultural World, an oral language development program for early childhood education, published by Zaner-Bloser Educational Publishers, 1994.Farrell has edited and appeared in numerous anthologies of personal narratives. She is the author of the fabulist novella, Strange Beauty, and a collection of short stories, Woman Wonder Tales. She currently offers storytelling workshops to writers in CWC branches and Mechanics Institute Library and the San Francisco Public Library and hosts a weekly storytelling blog at storytellingforeveryone.net. Read More Read Less