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Congratulations to Doris Mendez-DeMaio (@DMendezDeMaio)! You’ve won The Alternative! Please send us a DM on Twitter or an email to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com with the subject line “Free Book Friday” and your mailing address so we can get your books in the mail. This week, enter to win Up for Sale: Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery by Alison Marie Behnke. “Trafficking thrives in […]Read more "Free Book Friday: Up for Sale"

Today is a tricky day to be blogging. Children’s literature doesn’t seem like a fitting topic. But it is. Thirteen years ago, I was in sixth grade. My classmates and I were in the middle of our standardized testing. Our teachers chose not to tell us what happened that morning–though inevitably rumors were making the […]Read more "What We Talk About When We Talk About Today"

Photo Archivist/Editor Todd Strand today answers the questions “wait–do I work with that person on that book cover?” and “Hm. What kinds of interesting things might I find in a K-12 book publishing employee’s home…” The staff of Lerner Publishing Group really does have a wide range of interests and talents, not to mention an […]Read more "LPG: A photo resource unto itself"

TGIF! Who wants FREE books? First, congratulations to Nicole Levesque (@BlueSockGirl)! You’ve won Dear Wandering Wildebeest! Please send us a DM on Twitter or an email to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com with the subject line “Free Book Friday” and your mailing address so we can get your book in the mail. This week we’re giving you the chance to win The Alternative, a […]Read more "Free Book Friday: Patrick Jones’ The Alternative"

Have you ever made a shadow puppet or played with a prism? Or perhaps you’ve made a rubber band guitar or a telephone out of cans and string? One of the joys of childhood is discovering that how to play with sound and light. Lerner’s new First Step Nonfiction Series – Light and Sound guides […]Read more "Light and Sound: FREE Teaching Guide"

The Loft asked me for a blog post about diversity in kidlit: “It’s so easy as an adult to fall into rigid and boring habits of mind about what young people “need” from us—as if all we had to offer was medicine—but a great thing about teaching a class for teens about fisticuffs and fornication […]Read more "We want diverse books"

As summer comes to an end and we look ahead to the Labor Day holiday weekend, it seems fitting to remember Cesar Chavez and the struggle for farmworkers rights, encapsulated beautifully in Stuart A. Kallen’s We Are Not Beasts of Burden: Cesar Chavez and the Delano Grape Strike, California, 1965-1970 (TFCB, 2010). And lest we […]Read more "Remembering Those Who Fight for Us"

Congratulations to Robin Nyzio (@readingrobin)! You’ve won Party Time! Please send us a DM on Twitter or an email to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com with the subject line “Free Book Friday” and your mailing address so we can get your books in the mail. This week, enter to win Dear Wandering Wildebeest: And Other Poems from the Water Hole, a delightful collection of […]Read more "Free Book Friday: Dear Wandering Wildebeest"