The Lerner Blog

Meet our marketing intern, Annie Burkhart! 1. What brings you to Lerner? I just finished my final semester at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota. I graduated with a B.A. in literature. When my academic adviser suggested this internship, I jumped at the opportunity to be a part of getting books into kids’ hands! […]Read more "Meet a Lerner: Annie Burkhart"

Special thanks to digital intern Amy Richardson for the following post! 1.     What brings you to Lerner? My journey to Lerner began, believe it or not, four years ago when I started my studies at Bethel University as a computer science major. I loved my programming courses and working with technology, but something was missing. Prompted […]Read more "Meet a Lerner Amy Richardson"

In light of current discussions about immigration, I thought it would be a good moment to share a few spreads from Their Great Gift: Courage, Hope, and Sacrifice in a New Land by John Coy, with photographs by Wing Young Huie. Click on the spreads to enlarge. To learn more about the book, check out these […]Read more "Excerpt: Their Great Gift"

Happy Friday! We’re giving away 5 copies of Elana K. Arnold’s What Girls Are Made Of on Goodreads—click the link below to enter for a chance to win one. .goodreadsGiveawayWidget { color: #555; font-family: georgia, serif; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; background: white; } .goodreadsGiveawayWidget p { margin: 0 0 .5em !important; padding: […]Read more "Goodreads Giveaway: What Girls Are Made Of"

How long does it take to make a book for Lerner Publications? Check out highlights of the editor’s role in making our hot-off-the-presses Gateway Biography Prince: The Man, The Symbol, the Music. June 2016 -Manuscript arrives from author. We apply for copyright. -Initial edit, during which I walk around with Prince tunes running through my […]Read more "Timeline of a Prince Gateway Biography"

Special thanks to digital intern McKenna Balzer for the following post! Tomorrow is January 26 and the start of the 2017 Winter X-Games in Aspen. The games will last four days and feature the world’s most extreme winter athletes racing and pulling off dangerous tricks on snowboards, skis and snowmobiles. In 1997, the first Winter […]Read more "Audisee Extreme Winter Sports Zone!"

I recently redecorated my office in celebration of my pet cat, covering a wall with several sheets of customized wrapping paper. The row of sheets already looks like a permanent fixture, something that was fated to adorn the office, but in fact, the project might have been thwarted any number of times—a troubling notion, but […]Read more "The Waterfall of Creativity, or How to Honor Your Cat while also Freshening Up Your Office"