Behind the Scenes – Page 158

Chinese New Year

Are you ready for Chinese New Year? It’s one week from today! 2012 will be the year of the dragon. For spring 2012, we have a new set of books in the Cloverleaf Books brand, our nonfiction picture book brand for grades K-2. The new set is all about Holidays and Special Days. Chelsea’s Chinese […]Read more

Free Book Friday!

Congratulations to @missmillie78, Marcelino Ugalde, and Jenn Koehler! You have all won copies of The White Zone by Carolyn Marsden! This week, one lucky reader will win our brand new My Favorite Horses series from Lerner Publications! My Favorite Horses is sure to appeal to kids with a passion for horses and riding. Each title […]Read more

Problems Chip Hilton never had…

“If the sport of football ever dies, it will die from the outside in. It won’t be undone by a labor lockout or a broken business model — football owners know how to make money. Instead, the death will start with those furthest from the paychecks, the unpaid high school athletes playing on Friday nights. […]Read more

Author Interviews

Pioneer Trina Robbins Interviewed in Popular Comic Book Website

One of Graphic Universe’s most acclaimed writers—Trina Robbins—author of the popular Chicagoland Detective Agency series and the highly praised single title Lily Renée, Escape Artist—was recently interviewed by the esteemed comic book website CBR (Comic Book Resources). Interview. CBR, a pillar in the comic book community, has numerous awards to their credit, including a 2011 […]Read more

Starting the New Year with a Smile

I just got a letter (left) from my niece’s oldest daughter, who is five. She got stationery for Christmas and was eager to use it to thank me for sending her some leaf art we had done together earlier this winter so she could put it in the picture book I gave her for Christmas. […]Read more

Markle’s Book Explorers

If you read this blog regularly or read children’s nonfiction regularly, then you surely know the name Sandra Markle. Sandra has written more than two hundred nonfiction books for children. We have published her books in both our Lerner imprint and Millbrook Press. Highlights include the Arachnid World series, Animal Heroes: True Rescue Stories, and […]Read more

Free Book Friday!

Whew! We survived the first week back after holiday celebrations and a very happy New Year! So let’s celebrate again with Free Book Friday! This week three lucky winners will win The White Zone by Carolyn Marsden! Nouri and his cousin Talib can only vaguely remember a time before tanks rumbled over the streets of […]Read more

A Favorite

Sometimes people ask me if I have a favorite among the books I’ve edited. I always tell them no. Asking me to pick a favorite book is a bit like asking a parent to pick a favorite child. All my projects are my babies. Having said that, there’s usually a book or two each season […]Read more

Trifurcation

Read this. I have said before, and I now feel more confident in saying it again: electronic picture books prove just how high tech paper picture books actually are and the conversion from print to digital is way trickier for picture books than for just about any other form. I think Shatzkin’s excellent overview is […]Read more

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