The Lerner Blog

In keeping with the major storm that just brought so much havoc to the east coast, I thought I’d touch briefly on how comics, in one form or another, have informed us about the subject of hurricanes. In vivid fashion, you can discover the Eisner and Harvey Award nominated graphic novel and webcomic series A.D.: New Orleans After […]Read more "Comic Books and Hurricanes: A Brief Sampler"

Q: Name a spooky holiday coming up that DOESN’T start with H. A: If you said Day of the Dead, or Dia de los Muertos, you’re correct! We published Daniela’s Day of the Dead as part of our Cloverleaf Books—Fall and Winter Holidays set this fall. Daniela is a young girl who misses her grandfather. […]Read more "A Spooky Time of Year"

Congratulations to GeoLibrarian! She is the winner of The Normal Kid by Elizabeth Holmes! GeoLibrarian please send your mailing address to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com and we’ll get your book in the mail for you! After a great article featuring the Kennewick Man and Their Skeletons Speak: Kennewick Man and the Paleoamerican World ran in newspapers across the country last weekend we’ve had lots […]Read more "Free Book Friday"

Okay, am I the only person out there who didn’t know the term blob storage? A BLOb refers to “a collection of binary data stored as a single entity in a database management system. Blobs are typically images, audio or other multimedia objects” (thank you Wikipedia!). I love the term because I often feel that […]Read more "BLOb Storage"

Congratulations to Ms. Kappel! She is the winner of Do You Know Dewey? written by Brian P. Cleary and illustrated by Joanne Lew-Vriethoff! Ms. Kappel, please send your mailing address to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com and we’ll get your book in the mail for you! This week one lucky reader will win The Normal Kid by Elizabeth Holmes! Sylvan has been […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

Good morning, Rome International Airport! (Says this photo. Not me. At least not today.) Here in Minnesota, it’s getting to be the time of year when I notice the daylight slipping away all too quickly. The sun wakes up after I do (or, let’s be honest, I wake up later and later with the sun), […]Read more "Light and Color"

What was likely the busiest New York Comic Con ever, this year’s highly anticipated fall extravaganza, once again, drew an energetic array of Graphic Universe authors, illustrators, agents, and fans to Big Apple’s Javits Center.   A frenetic scene at the Graphic Universe booth at the heart of Comic Con All the way from Denmark, […]Read more "Graphic Universe In Full Force at NYCC ‘12"

[This blog post comes to you from author Rebecca L. Johnson.] A common question I get from students when I give school presentations about my books is “Where do you get your ideas?” They laugh when I tell them that the inspiration for my latest book, Zombie Makers: True Stories of Nature’s Undead, was flies. […]Read more "Zombie Makers—Creepy, Captivating, and Oh, So Much Fun!"