The Lerner Blog

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about my favorite history teacher in high school and how I loved getting away from the textbook to study history. I think another thing that frustrated me about the history textbooks I grew up using was that women were always sidebar characters. You’d get a little block of […]Read more "Contest: Women in History"

<img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-dPc40exBQ8E/TqCHHnVDHHI/AAAAAAAAAhg/dtQ2-t-Tq84/video0120ccb82ec7%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('e0af135e-dc24-4a07-abfe-7534700682ce'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = " http://www.youtube.com/v/1dgLEDdFddk&hl=en“;” alt=””> Earlier this month, at the New York Film Festival, Martin Scorsese previewed his upcoming live action 3D film Hugo, an adaptation of Brian Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Scholastic, 2007). This illustrated novel (lots of images, few words) for young […]Read more "Comin’ Attcha!"

We have a new app! It allows readers to view our e-books on the iPad. See more details here.Read more "It’s an App"

Harold Camping originally predicted our demise 5 months ago, but then claimed a mathematical error. The preacher now says, today is the day! Well, if the end of the world really is near, we want to give away FREE BOOKS! Leave a comment below to win a copy of Ron Miller’s new book Is the […]Read more "Is the End of the World Near? Then We Want to Give Away Books!"

Do you want to know more about Millbrook? Do you want a sneak peek of the cover of a truly gorgeous picture book that’s coming out in Spring 2012? Head on over to There’s a Book to read Danielle’s interview with me!Read more "Psssst…I’m Over Here"

Apropos of very little, I thought I’d mention a new verbal meme I’ve noticed. It’s in the same vein as saying like a lot or using goes instead of said (as in, “and then he goes…”). This meme has to do with the phrase “all of a sudden.” Have you noticed how nobody says that […]Read more "And then, like, all of the sudden, he goes …"

Should be very interesting. The two teenage panelists are very smart readers. The adults will try to keep up.Read more "If you’re in town…"

The following blog post and photos come to you from Danny Lerner, who just experienced his first Comic Con (and lived to tell the tale!) Wow! What an event! This year’s New York Comic Con was a juggernaut of a show. It is the biggest of its kind on the east coast and in America […]Read more "The News from New York Comic Con"

In working on TFCB’s Dressing a Nation fashion series, I read about colonial girls and their samplers. Not unlike the young women of the days of yore, who learned stitching techniques through samplers, I too learned about embroidery, cross-stitching, and other needle-and-thread techniques by working on the reproduction at left of the colonial Williamsburg Chase […]Read more "Stitching through Time"