The Lerner Blog

In today’s fast-paced world of Facebook, Twitter, and social media you need to have a website that makes life easy for your customers. Well, we are proud to say that after months and months of hard work the all new http://www.lernerbooks.com is up and running. The site is also getting rave reviews from our customers […]Read more "Loving Our New Website"

by Robyn Chapman, NY Editorial Assistant It’s that time of year again! The year-end reviews are out, and Graphic Universe left its mark on 2010. Here is your handy guide to the best-of-the-best. Guinea PIG, Pet Shop Private Eye: Hamster and Cheese was a big winner this year! It was listed in the prestigious 2010 […]Read more "GU Comics Day: The Best of 2010"

By Diana Childress, TFCB author Call me an escapist. I love travel. And when I can’t go to distant places, I love delving into books about faraway people and places and imagining myself there. There’s a big bonus to such “armchair travel”: when you go by book instead of airplane, you can journey through time […]Read more "Long Ago and Far Away"

Robyn Chapman here, editorial assistant at Graphic Universe. Like the rest of New York, my neighborhood was hit hard by the blizzard. Here was the view outside my Brooklyn apartment yesterday morning. Blizzard or not, I had to venture out. I am cat-sitting for several families in Queens, and those cats were hungry. I made […]Read more "GU Comics Day: Blizzard Trekkers"

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director, TFCB (Above, from left to right: Muffin, Finna, Miko) (Above: lioness and her cubs in the Okavango Delta region of northern Botswana) My father and I are both crazy about cats. He has two, and I have three (see top photo above). He called the other day to tell […]Read more "2011: Year of the Cat, Sort Of"

By Carol HinzEditorial Director, Millbrook Press You might think that editors are all spelling experts. While I can brag that I won the sixth grade spelling bee at my (very small) elementary school, I’m not an exceptional speller. The truth is that good copyeditors and proofreaders catch spelling errors every day (not everyday) and make […]Read more "Words I’ve Learned to Spell Thanks to My Job"

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director, TFCB TFCB author Fred Bortz sent me a magnificent link for Christmas Day. Click here for an incredible short video of a Martian sunset (above). It’s spectacularly blue! Happy Christmas! [photo: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology]Read more "I’m Dreaming of a Blue Sunset"

by Robyn Chapman, NY editorial assistant In his essay for the SANE Journal, titled “This is Not Your Forefather’s Thor: Using Comics to Make Mythology Meaningful”, Nick Kremer wrestles with big questions. Why do we read mythology? Are the myths of archaic societies relevant to the students of today? How can we help students engage […]Read more "GU Comics Day: Not Your Forefather’s Thor"

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director, TFCB Not so long ago, my brother mentioned casually to me that he had once entertained the idea of becoming a neurosurgeon. In a way, his statement surprised me, since he’s made his life in publishing and in the law. But on the other hand, he’s a careful, methodical […]Read more "Beautiful Brains"