How to Get the Most Out of Interactive Books

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By Kate Schefer, Digital Product Coordinator

Every season, there are more ways to enjoy and learn from Lerner books! In the Digital Department, we create enhanced eBooks like Interactive Books. We added 22 new titles to the collection this season, but they’re no good to you if you don’t know how to use them! The Interactive Book interface has many moving parts and features. Let’s take a walk through one of our newest titles, Discover Cryobiology, and look at each aspect of it.

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Remembering Biologist Lincoln Brower, Advocate for the Monarch Butterfly

By Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books

Have you spotted any monarch caterpillars or butterflies lately? We currently have three chrysalides at my house hanging from the top of a mesh butterfly habitat, and one rapidly-growing caterpillar who has been munching through milkweed leaves harvested from our backyard.

They’ve been on author Rebecca Hirsh’s mind as well. She wrote The Monarchs Are Missing, which we released this past spring, and after she heard the news that monarch scientist Dr. Lincoln Brower had passed away, she shared this remembrance. Read More