The Lerner Blog

By Sara HoffmannSenior Editor Do you have any favorite words? They might be words that have a positive association in your mind. Or they might just be words you think are fun to say. I have a bunch of favorite words. Here are just a few of them. • Sluice: I’ve loved this word ever […]Read more "Favorite Words"

I’m bouncing around with excitement for Steve Brezenoff’s book launch party tonight. He’ll be reading from and signing The Absolute Value of –1 at legendary Minneapolis indie Magers & Quinn. This is the first time I’ve had the pleasure of editing a local author (I know! Shocking!) so this is my first local launch. Booklist […]Read more "A reading! Tonight!"

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director, TFCB [the Eiffel Tower, above, by Alison Behnke] I’m on vacation in Paris, France, this week! Think of me walking along the Seine; eating croissants for breakfast, cheeses for lunch, and the specialite du jour for dinner; speaking French; taking the TGV fast train to Marseille to visit a […]Read more "En Vacances!"

Jon Fishman, our manager of reprints and paperbacks as well as our resident hockey fanatic, shares his excitement about a new hockey season and a new book. With the start of the National Hockey League (NHL) season right around the corner, I’ve got pucks, body checks, and hat tricks on the brain. In much of […]Read more "Hockey on the Brain"

Today is Constitution Day, the anniversary of the day in 1787 when state delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia signed the final version of the U.S. Constitution. In her book Who Wrote the U.S. Constitution? (part of the Six Questions of American History series), veteran author Candice Ransom tells the story of that long, […]Read more "Constitution Day"

Are you looking for a fun writing contest with great prizes? Just in time for Halloween, we are launching the Night Fall™ Scary Story Contest! After reading our free Thaw eBook we want you to create a creepy ending to a scary story just like the tales told in our new Night Fall series. Stories […]Read more "Night Fall Scary Story Writing Contest"

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director, TFCB One of the new TFCB series for Fall 2010 of which I’m proudest is Civil Rights Struggles around the World. This series is particularly timely in that, in this first decade of the twenty-first century, we are marking a number of anniversaries of iconic civil rights struggles. The […]Read more "Civil Rights Struggles Around the World"

By Carol HinzEditorial Director, Millbrook Press Working on an illustrated book is always exciting—you’re never completely sure how the book will look until the artist sends in the final art. Art often comes to us digitally (whether it’s because the artist works digitally or because the artist scans or photographs the finished pieces), but we […]Read more "The Artwork Is Coming!"

by Anna CavalloEditor The calendar may say we officially have another week and a half of summer, but this year–at least in Minnesota–fall followed the cultural schedule and dutifully came with Labor Day weekend. The days are mild, the nights are suddenly chilly. Thanks to an early spring and a wet summer, we are enjoying […]Read more "You Know It’s Fall When…"