The Lerner Blog

I find it so intriguing that we’re finding creative ways to continue to do old-fashioned journalism and storytelling with twenty-first-century technology. Take a peak at The Atavist, a new boutique publishing house that is producing nonfiction pieces specifically for digital, mobile reading devices. The works cross a variety of disciplines, and as digital creations, they […]Read more "Throwback to Modernity"

Who wants to win FREE books? In honor of the launch of The Best Cats Ever series we are giving away a library bound set of all eight books! All you need to do to enter is post a “purr-fect” picture of your favorite cat on our Lerner Publications Facebook page by Friday, February 25 […]Read more "Purr-fect Picture Contest"

Yesterday’s New York Times had an article about people (especially young people) using Facebook and Twitter more than they’re blogging. A quote that caught my attention came from Elisa Camahort Page, co-founder of the women’s blog network BlogHer. She said: “If you’re looking for substantive conversation, you turn to blogs. You aren’t going to find […]Read more "The Decline of Blogging?"

Following up on my last blog post, I invited author Elaine Landau to guest blog about her experience in writing The Best Cats Ever series. Here’s Elaine! –Sara Hoffmann, Senior Editor The poet E. E. Cummings once wrote, “A cat is a cat is a cat.” That now-famous saying implies that all cats are pretty […]Read more "Here, Kitty Kitty"

http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=us/2011/02/16/whitfield.the.green.book.cnn Calvin Ramsey talked to CNN about the Green Book and his picture book. Check it out. Aside form the history lesson, you get a peek at Calvin’s excellentsense of style. (When he met with my colleagues in marketing in New York a while back, he was sporting a tuxedo. All my other authors should […]Read more "Ruth and the Green Book on CNN"

Twilight heartthrob Robert Pattinson (above) plays a vet student who joins a traveling circus as its vet in the upcoming spring movie Water for Elephants. Elephant actress Tai (above) is supposed to be fantastic as “Rosie,” so now that I’m hooked on Ann Downer’s new TFCB title Elephant Talk, I’m going to have to see […]Read more "Trunk Candy (for Valentine’s Day)"

It’s Valentine’s Day, are you sharing it with that special… monster? This isn’t our usual day to post, but Graphic Universe has some breaking news! Today is the launch of our new My Boyfriend is a Monster website. This graphic novel series debuts in spring with two books, I Love Him to Pieces and Made […]Read more "My Bloody Valentine"

The Daytona 500 is just six days away. Are you ready? To get you in the mood, here are some tidbits from the brand-new book The Daytona 500: The Thrill and Thunder of the Great American Race by Nancy Roe Pimm. (Nancy knows more than a thing or two about this race; her husband, Ed […]Read more "Ready to Race?"

If you’re looking for high ick factor, look no farther than Arachnid World, a new Lerner series by Sandra Markle. The series includes titles on orb weavers, who weave extra-strong webs; black widows, whose bite can take out their enemies; and wolf spiders, who carry their babies around on their backs.I’ll focus here on the […]Read more "Amazing Arachnids"