The Lerner Blog

Today, as the funerals begin, it’s almost impossible not to be thinking about the victims of last week’s horrific school shooting in Connecticut and their families. The innocent grins of children and laughing adults—now dead, the horror and grief on the faces of their loved ones, a weeping president, the stunned, hollow expression of the […]Read more "A Grieving Nation"

Congratulations to Becky Wilson! You are the winner of The Royal Treasure Measure! Please send your mailing address to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com and we’ll get your book in the mail for you! Our next giveaway is a different kind of treasure: the perfect holiday gift for the young adventurer on your list. The first two books of our new Mortensen’s Escapades series […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

We all love a good, juicy headline with a scandalous story to report.  The Telegraph article that Patricia responded to in her post yesterday likely got more hits out of the headline “Catcher in the Rye Dropped from US School Curriculum” than it would’ve with something like “US Expands Students’ Exposure to Nonfiction”—a more accurate […]Read more "On Dictionaries and Language Makers"

…or, Why Research Is Important …or, How Common Core Became Confusing for a British Tabloid To quote a fantastic ’90s rap song, “let me clear my throat.” Why? Because I need to take a deep breath so I can rant effectively about the Telegraph UK’s recent shoddy reporting job. This article has been generating concern, […]Read more "Don’t Believe Everything You Read"

[This blog post comes to you from Lisa Bullard, author extraordinaire of the Cloverleaf Holidays and Special Days and Fall and Winter Holidays sets.] During the winter holidays of 2010, I was hard at work on a new challenge from the Millbrook editorial staff: to write one book a month for twelve months. Each of […]Read more "We Wish You a Merry Halloween?"

Congratulations to Twila Claycomb! You are the winner of our new American Music Milestones series from Twenty-First Century Books! Please send your mailing address to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com and we’ll get your books in the mail for you! This week all of the buzz has been about Prince William and Duchess Kate! In honor of their baby-to-be one lucky […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

In my last post, I talked about a relatively new language development that I’ve been noticing lately—the use of hashtags as social commentary in both writing and speech. Well, with the holiday season upon us, I’ve been thinking a lot about my grandparents and other beloved older adults in my life and the artful, beautiful, […]Read more "As My Grandma Used to Say"

There’s a magical fairyland that all children dream of visiting… A land where the best ideas are plucked like golden apples from the tree of imagination and turned into wonderful digital content to be enjoyed by all. I’m speaking of Product Management Land, of course. Rejoice! The good-looking denizens of Product Management Land have been […]Read more "Digital Potpourri 12/4: Finishing Touches"

[I posted this just before Thanksgiving when hardly anyone was reading the blog. So, here’s another whirl to give our fans another chance to engage in the Common Core discussion. Great implementation map at the bottom of the blog, too.] My neighbor Mindy has a great son, Ned. He’s nine years old, and his best […]Read more "Partnered Reading"