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“Our world is full of uncertainties,” an elementary-school friend of my sister’s was fond of saying in a faux-sinister voice. And how right you were, Jane. As I write this, students across the country are deep in the weeds of standardized test-taking, hoping their erasers will survive their attempts to prove that they can spot the […]Read more "The Blog Post Will Be Multiple Choice: Kid Lit Questions and "Answers""

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Congratulations to the RRHS Library Staff (@rrhslib)! They’ve won our What’s Your Style? series! 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 addresses so we can get your books in the mail. And now for something completely different. This week’s free book? The Shibboleth, the second […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

Have you seen Millbrook’s gorgeous new book Handle with Care: An Unusual Butterfly Journey? It tells the story of the butterflies we see at museums and special exhibits. Did you know there are actual butterfly farms in South America, where butterflies are raised from larvae? (I didn’t.) Learn more about this fascinating process, documented by […]Read more "Pictures of beautiful butterflies"

Congratulations to Brenda Schrider (@bschride)! You are the winner of Mumbet’s Declaration of Independence by Gretchen Woelfle with illustrations by Alix Delinois! 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 addresses so we can get your book in the mail. Attention fashionistas! Are you bummed that […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

Here’s a guest post from Jenna Lester, our awesome and astute editorial intern without whom much of my list’s back matter wouldn’t exist. Jenna has exciting news to share about a conference that’s sure to be of interest to all writers and book lovers!Greetings, fellow book lovers! As the current editorial intern here at Lerner, […]Read more "AWP Writing Conference"

Production Editor Erica Johnson is on the blog today to talk about book layout, photo selection, and one reason why it’s really ok to watch music videos while at work: Book design and photo selections are shaped by many different choices. Sometimes it’s content-based: what imagery is available for this topic? Is the text taking […]Read more "K-Pop!"

Congratulations to Heather (@HeatherRobison8)! You are the winner of Every Body’s Talking: What We Say Without Words by Donna M. Jackson! 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 addresses so we can get your book in the mail. This week, in honor of both Black […]Read more "Free Book Friday"

Today in Minnesota, we’re having some weather. “Yeah, yeah,” you say, “we all have weather every day. Whatevs. And also I have heard enough from you Lerner people about your cold and your snow.” And you’re right, of course. Ten inches of snow in one day is par for the course in a Minnesota winter. […]Read more "Surviving in Cold Places…and FREE downloadable teaching tools"