The Lerner Blog

Congratulations to GeoLibrarian! She is the winner of The Normal Kid by Elizabeth Holmes! GeoLibrarian please send your mailing address to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com and we’ll get your book in the mail for you! After a great article featuring the Kennewick Man and Their Skeletons Speak: Kennewick Man and the Paleoamerican World ran in newspapers across the country last weekend we’ve had lots […]Read more "Free Book Friday"

Okay, am I the only person out there who didn’t know the term blob storage? A BLOb refers to “a collection of binary data stored as a single entity in a database management system. Blobs are typically images, audio or other multimedia objects” (thank you Wikipedia!). I love the term because I often feel that […]Read more "BLOb Storage"

Congratulations to Ms. Kappel! She is the winner of Do You Know Dewey? written by Brian P. Cleary and illustrated by Joanne Lew-Vriethoff! Ms. Kappel, please send your mailing address to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com and we’ll get your book in the mail for you! This week one lucky reader will win The Normal Kid by Elizabeth Holmes! Sylvan has been […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

Good morning, Rome International Airport! (Says this photo. Not me. At least not today.) Here in Minnesota, it’s getting to be the time of year when I notice the daylight slipping away all too quickly. The sun wakes up after I do (or, let’s be honest, I wake up later and later with the sun), […]Read more "Light and Color"

What was likely the busiest New York Comic Con ever, this year’s highly anticipated fall extravaganza, once again, drew an energetic array of Graphic Universe authors, illustrators, agents, and fans to Big Apple’s Javits Center.   A frenetic scene at the Graphic Universe booth at the heart of Comic Con All the way from Denmark, […]Read more "Graphic Universe In Full Force at NYCC ‘12"

[This blog post comes to you from author Rebecca L. Johnson.] A common question I get from students when I give school presentations about my books is “Where do you get your ideas?” They laugh when I tell them that the inspiration for my latest book, Zombie Makers: True Stories of Nature’s Undead, was flies. […]Read more "Zombie Makers—Creepy, Captivating, and Oh, So Much Fun!"

Congratulations to Bigfoot who is the winner of Waga’s Big Scare written and illustrated by Samuel Hiti! Bigfoot, please send your mailing address to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com and we’ll get your book in the mail for you just in time for Halloween! This week we’re paying tribute to our favorite libarians who taught us everything we know about the […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

Like most editors, I didn’t get where I am without the support of many teachers along the way. While I’ve been lucky to have lots of teachers worth bragging about, one in particular stands out in my mind as the teacher who inspired a Lerner series. Mrs. L. was my tenth-grade biology teacher. She had […]Read more "Lightning Bolt Genetics—Inspired By a Teacher"

It seems like I’ve done eReader device comparisons more than a couple of times in the past year. The landscape has changed so much since 2011 and with even more options looming on the horizon, how can a consumer know which device is right for them? Luckily for me, Smon Hill over at Digital Trends […]Read more "Digital Potpourri 10/9"