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Thanks to everyone who entered our contest! Congratulations to Angel, Cherie, Alice, @CaraghMOBrien, @FLBoyzmom, @JoannaMarple, and @TinaLynn510! You’ve all won a signed copy of Brooklyn, Burning by Steve Brezenoff! I’ll be contacting you shortly with more details. When I walked out of my apartment this morning, the air felt like fall. And at least one […]Read more "Songs of Summer Contest Winners"

As just about anyone in the state of Minnesota could probably tell you, the Minnesota State Fair is in full swing at the moment. One of the most popular attractions at the fair is the Miracle of Birth Center. Kids in particular are fascinated by the births and the adorable newborn animals. While I find […]Read more "The Miracle of (Marsupial) Birth"

Can you believe it’s already almost back-to-school time? I know I can’t! But as much as I love summer and hate to see it end, I also always look forward to fall. And what better way to welcome the season than with a few fall-themed books? These selections from First Step Nonfiction, Lerner’s brand especially […]Read more "Fall Books"

I received some positive feedback on my Design Lessons at Comic Book Camp post, so I though I’d share another lesson from comics camp. Today’s lesson is about one of the most valuable, yet underutilized tools in the cartoonist’s metaphorical toolbox: page composition. No amount of impressive draftsmanship can hide poor page architecture. Let’s break […]Read more "Architecture of The Comics Page"

The music I listen to tends to vary with the seasons, so about this time every year I’m making the very most of my summer favorites. In the summer, I tend to want to hear upbeat music with a catchy hook. The kind of music that’s liable to make me dance a little in my […]Read more "Contest: The Songs of Summer"

With events in Libya taking up front-page headlines this week, I turned to one of our most popular blog entries from earlier this year: background information about Libya and about its leader, Muammar al-Qaddafi. Below are 10 quick facts that are still relevant about Libya and about Qaddafi: 1.Qaddafi was born in the desert near […]Read more "10 Quick Facts about Muammar al-Qaddafi and Libya"

I have been doing a little reorganizing at home. In my one-year old son’s room, his books had previously been all out of reach. (Why? So he didn’t chew them all to bits!) But now he has a small selection of board books on an easy-to-reach shelf. Well, guess what? We’re doing a lot more […]Read more "Where Are Your Books?"

[I asked production editor Brie Cohen to blog about one of the recent releases from Lerner Publications. She took it to a personal level!] I buzzed a friend into my apartment building recently, and a few minutes later received a phone call from that friend. “I can’t find your apartment. There are so many doors […]Read more "Personally Speaking"

I love almost everything about the dog days of summer. I say almost because unfortunately for me this time of year also means allergy season. Even with my watery eyes and constant sneezing I loved reading Allergies , one of our new Fall 11 titles from our USA TODAY Health Reports series. Somehow the personal […]Read more "Allergies and Free Books!"