Megan Ciskowski

Librarian Prep Post for November

Whether returning to school, working from home, or anything in between, everyone is faced with the uncertainty of today’s world. We hope that, amid the craziness of this year, you have all kept good health and taken time to take care of the person that matters most: you! Hopefully, we can appease a little of […]Read more

Author Interviews

An Interview with Barbara Lowell, Author of “Behind the Bookcase”

By Taylor Elgarten, Kar-Ben Today we welcome Barbara Lowell to the blog to share her inspiration and hopes for her new picture book Behind the Bookcase: Miep Gies, Anne Frank, and the Hiding Place in which the story of Anne Frank is retold from the unique perspective of her protector, Miep Geis.Read more

A Chat with She Represents Author Caitlin Donohue

By Megan Ciskowski, Assistant Publicist In a complicated political era when the United States feels divided, women are being elected at record rates and government is beginning to more accurately reflect the people it represents. She Represents: 44 Women Who Are Changing Politics . . . and the World will show you what the road […]Read more

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Happy Book Birthday: New Picture Books, Middle-Grade, YA, and Nonfiction

By Megan Ciskowski, Assistant Publicist Check out September new releases from Lerner Publishing Group!Read more

Lizard in a Zoot Suit: A Graphic Novel For Our Time

By Megan Ciskowski, Assistant Publicist Los Angeles, 1943. It’s the era of the Zoot Suit Riots, and Flaca and Cuata have a problem. It’s bigger than being grounded by their strict mother. It’s bigger than tensions with the soldiers stationed nearby. And it’s shaped like a five-foot-tall lizard. When a lost member of an unknown […]Read more

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Librarian Prep Post for September & October

Welcome to the end of summer, and in some areas of the country, back to school time. Whatever your location is deciding or struggling with, we wish you all health, safety, and as little upheaval as possible. To help with your planning, here are some booklists and readers advisory for September and October.Read more

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Happy Book Birthday: New Picture Books, Middle Grade, YA, and Nonfiction

by Megan Ciskowski, Assistant Publicist Check out August new releases from Lerner Publishing Group!Read more

Author Interviews

Podcast Interview with Hannah Batsel, author/illustrator of A Is for Another Rabbit

Today on The Lerner Podcast, we’re joined by Hannah Batsel, author and illustrator of A Is for Another Rabbit, a hilarious picture book in which a rabbit-obsessed narrator makes an owl increasingly irate by refusing to play by the rules of a conventional alphabet book. Every entry is about bunnies, from “delightful, dynamic, daredevil rabbits” […]Read more

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Happy Book Birthday: New Picture Books, Middle Grade and YA

by Megan Ciskowski, Assistant Publicist Check out April new releases from Lerner Publishing Group!Read more

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