The Lerner Blog

Happy Valentine’s Day, dear readers! While some of us here are taking the day to celebrate our love of chocolate, I thought it appropriate to make this post a celebration of our love of books. Specifically, printed books. (Despite, of course, the amazing digital options that Lerner is putting out into the world and the […]Read more "A Valentine to Printed Books"

With Valentine’s Day coming up, we (the benevolent spirit of Adriano Fruzzetti and I) have decided to treat you lovely readers to a more heartwarming blog post than usual. So here is a February mad lib for you, featuring select Lerner cover images* to remind you why you love us. Are you ready for spring? […]Read more "A Digital Mad Lib(rary)"

                                               COVERS ABOVE: Iceberg, Right Ahead! The Tragedy of the Titanic by Stephanie Sammartino McPherson (TFCB) and Zombie Makers: True Stories of Nature’s Undead by Rebecca L. Johnson (Millbrook)My colleague Carol Hinz, editorial director of Lerner’s Millbrook Press imprint, deserves the real credit for this post. The light bulb went off in her head last week […]Read more "Going Nonfiction"

Rhetorical questions aside (we’re always ready for Free Book Friday, right? No one ever thinks, “If only this Thursday with no reading material could last a little longer!”)…let’s hear it for Lindsay Peck, winner of our coveted copy of The Twelve-Fingered Boy! Send your mailing address to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com so that you can start reading it from cover to cover […]Read more "Who’s Ready for Free Book Friday?!"

Those of you who’ve been following my posts for a long time (hi, Mom and Dad) know that I am a grammar curmudgeon. Seeing grammatical errors makes me … well, a little crabby! Since you’re reading a school and library publisher’s blog, I suspect you can relate to my affinity for grammar (if not the […]Read more "Still Curmudgeonly"

In case you haven’t heard the good news yet, the new and improved Lerner Interactive Books™ product line is now officially up and running. The blood, sweat, and tears of the valiant Adriano Fruzzetti (I have to mention him in every blog post because of our under-the-table endorsement deal) have been converted into the snazzy enhancements you’ve […]Read more "Digital Dreams Do Come True"

Last week, Patricia alluded to an accolade that hadn’t previously been mentioned on our blog. I’m pleased to share the details today: A Leaf Can Be . . . by Laura Purdie Salas and illustrated by Violeta Dabija is a Minnesota Book Award finalist in the Children’s Literature category!  This was a wonderful book to be […]Read more "An Abundance of Good News"

Welcome to a new month, book-lovers! However many weeks of winter may be left, it can’t hurt to have a free book for the hibernation season. Today–the 53rd anniversary of the first sit-in at a Greensboro, North Carolina lunch counter–seems a fitting day to give away a book about one of the civil rights movement’s […]Read more "A Very February Free Book Friday"

This week, I’ve mentioned to a few folks that January has felt like it’s been both a year long and a day long. Has your 2013 felt this way as well? We’ve had so many exciting things happening at Lerner this past month, not to mention the accolades (CSK Honor! Batchelder Honor! MN Book Award […]Read more "Managing Time"