The Lerner Blog

Photo Editor Giliane Mansfeldt joins us today on the blog to share another glimpse into the daily workings of a photo editor here at LPG. As a photo editor, one of my many roles is to find interesting and compelling photos to help the reader visualize a concept within a story. The concept may be […]Read more "One of the Many Roles of a Photo Editor"

Congratulations to jaw_gjw@yahoo.com! You are the winner of our brand new  SuperScience Infographics series! Please send an email to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com with the subject line “Free Book Friday” and tell us your mailing address so we can get your books in the mail. This week we’re thrilled to giveaway two copies of Dot Hutchison’s debut YA novel, A Wounded Name. In […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

Earlier this week you heard from author Ann Downer about her new book Wild Animal Neighbors: Sharing Our Urban World. This fascinating title visits cities around the world where formerly “wild” animals have been spotted. To help you use this book, Ann has put together some fantastic (and free!) classroom tools for you. First, we have a Google Earth […]Read more "FREE Teaching Tools for Wild Animal Neighbors"

Creative Commons image by Ed Schipul While my colleagues may make fun of me, I freely admit that one of my heroes is Bill Nye. Had his award-winning television show, Bill Nye the Science Guy, aired when I was a kid, my career path would have been much, much different. I had just started working […]Read more "Nerds Can Dance, Too!"

Hey internet people! Just wanted to let you know that there are a number of shiny new Lerner titles available for your Kindle, Kobo, Sony, and coming soon to Nook and Apple devices. Max Flash, ‘missions’ 1 – 6; Game On, Supersonic, In Deep, Grave Danger, Subzero, Short Circuit. Meet Max—an explosive hybrid of Harry Houdini […]Read more "New Lerner Books for your Device"

Thoughts from TFCB author Ann Downer on this Labor Day holiday: “There’s a bear sleeping on the porch!” That is a text Mason MacDonough’s mom isn’t going to forget any time soon. Her 7-year-old son discovered the bear napping on the porch of their Florida home on August 15. That same day, outside Detroit, 12-year-old […]Read more "Lions and Gators and Bears, Oh My!"

Congratulations to Dallie Davis (@dmdavis555)! You are the winner of our brand new series The Dario Quincy Academy of Dance! Dallie, please send us a DM on Twitter or an email to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com with the subject line “Free Book Friday” and tell us your mailing address so we can get your books in the mail. As anyone on […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

The single most gratifying experience in children’s publishing is hearing that your books make a difference in children’s lives.  Talented Lerner author Buffy Silverman, who wrote our Lightning Bolt Books Animal Look-Alikes series (cover pictured)—as well as many other well-respected Lerner books—recently passed a note along to me that made my day by describing in […]Read more "This Note Made My Day!"

Hello! This not so bookish post comes from the design desk of Emily Harris, one of the book designers here at Lerner Publishing Group. For me, the end of summer is always marked by the nightly hum of crickets, roasting local sweet corn on the grill, and my annual trip to the Minnesota State Fair. […]Read more "A Bittersweet FAIRwell to Summer"