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Scientist Katie Bouman Featured in Sara Latta’s Black Holes

By Libby Stille, Publicist In honor of this week’s reveal of the first ever image of a black hole, we’re posting the profile of scientist Katie Bouman from Sara Latta’s Twenty-First Century Books title Black Holes: The Weird Science of the Most Mysterious Objects in the Universe. Dr. Bouman spearheaded the project to create an algorithm […]Read more

A Common Thread Between the Guthrie Theater and Lerner

by Lara Neel, Trade Marketing Manager, with help from Honor Murphy and Sophia Charbonneau If you visit the office spaces at Lerner, you might notice that we have a few quilts hanging up on our walls.Read more

Saying a Fond Farewell

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director of Twenty-First Century Books It’s hard to believe, but after twenty-seven years with Lerner Publishing Group, I am retired. My last day was Friday, March 29, 2019. The company had a wonderful sendoff for me, with cake and gifts and wonderful speeches. The photo above shows me with some […]Read more

Author Interviews

Resources for No More Excuses: Dismantling Rape Culture + Podcast Interview with Author Amber J. Keyser

By Libby Stille, Publicist We have some news: we’re launching a podcast! For our first episode, we interviewed Amber J. Keyser, author of No More Excuses: Dismantling Rape Culture, about what teachers, librarians, and everyone else can do to dismantle rape culture.Read more

Collections

Librarian Prep List for June

by Lara Neel, Trade Marketing Manager June is celebrated as Pride Month by the LGBT community, and many Pride events occur on the last Sunday in June to commemorate the anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion in New York City on June 28, 1969. To help you get ready for it, we’ve put together a list […]Read more

Collections

Happy Book Birthday: New Picture Books, Middle Grade, and Graphic Novels

By Libby Stille, Publicist Check out April new releases from Lerner Publishing Group!Read more

MariNaomi Introduces Book Two in Her Life on Earth YA Graphic Novel Series

By Libby Stille, Publicist Last spring, cartoonist MariNaomi launched her Life on Earth YA graphic novel series with Losing the Girl: Book One. Losing the Girl followed several teens as they grapple with the usual perils of being a teenager . . . and the mysterious disappearance of their classmate, Claudia Jones. In Gravity’s Pull: Book Two, […]Read more

Books For Africa

By Joni Sussman, Publisher, Kar-Ben Publishing When Books For Africa (BFA) sponsored a trip to South Africa in honor of its 30th anniversary last January, I couldn’t resist the opportunity to see a part of the world I’d never visited.Read more

Taking Learning Off the Page with Science Buddies

By Kate Schefer, Digital Products Coordinator Working in the Digital department at Lerner most often means ensuring that all of our frontlist titles are available in digital formats, so readers can access them anywhere, anytime, and on any device. But we also work hard to find ways to innovate within the digital space, to reach […]Read more

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