The Lerner Blog

And you think an inkjet printer is tricky to run? As you might have heard, the Federal Reserve has been printing a lot of money. And as you might have also  heard, there was a tiny problem with a recent batch of hundred dollar bills. Some fraction of $1.1 billion worth of new US $100 […]Read more "Regret the error?"

Anyone who’s read Sally Walker’s Frozen Secrets will not be surprised by this video (but it will still be impressive). http://widget.newsinc.com/single.htm?WID=2&VID=23228630&freewheel=69016&sitesection=ndnsubssRead more "Antarctica is for strong stomachs"

by Robyn ChapmanNY Editorial AssistantDouble praise this week for Hamster and Cheese! Volume one of the Guinea PIG, Pet Shop Private Eye series (by Colleen AF Venable and Stephanie Yue) just made the prestigious Children’s Book List 2010: 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing. This list is created annually by the New York Public Library. […]Read more "New Yorkers Love Guinea Pigs (Canadians Too!)"

by Carol HinzEditorial Director, Millbrook Press The ground is covered in snow and the temperatures here are in the teens. What am I talking about? Our Spring 2011 books, of course! Our first-ever online librarian preview takes place in a few short hours and we’ll be talking up lots of exciting new books for spring. […]Read more "It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Springtime"

Colleagues wondered why I was whooping and hollering in my office last Thursday. This is why. Congratulations, Blythe!Read more "You Might Have Heard Some Joyful Shouting…"

We’re in the holiday mood and in the spirit of giving we want to give you FREE BOOKS! All you need to do is tell us how you use Lerner books in your school or library and you will be entered to win a free set of books! Leave your response in the comment section […]Read more "It’s Contest Time!"

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director, TFCB Science writer extraordinaire, Fred Bortz, feeds me a regular stream of links to amazing science stories. The latest is related to the recent announcement that scientists have found a bacterium in Mono Lake (above) in California that can live on arsenic, a chemical no one previously suspected could […]Read more "Arsenic-Based Life?"

By Sara HoffmannSenior Editor If you’re anything like me, your thoughts have probably turned to holiday shopping (unless, of course, you’re already done with your holiday shopping—in which case I’m incredibly jealous). Finding the right gifts can be daunting, but I have a list that just might help. These Lerner books make excellent gifts for […]Read more "Holiday Shopping Lerner Style"

I’m on record all over the place that young adult is a genre and that paranormal, dystopian, realistic, etc. are best thought of subgenres of YA. I’ve said many times that adolescent experience is the concern of all YA, and the subgenres are the prisms through which we view that experience. I continue to believe […]Read more "The rise of the subs"