The Lerner Blog

Are you looking for a fun writing contest with great prizes? Just in time for Halloween, we are launching the Night Fall™ Scary Story Contest! After reading our free Thaw eBook we want you to create a creepy ending to a scary story just like the tales told in our new Night Fall series. Stories […]Read more "Night Fall Scary Story Writing Contest"

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director, TFCB One of the new TFCB series for Fall 2010 of which I’m proudest is Civil Rights Struggles around the World. This series is particularly timely in that, in this first decade of the twenty-first century, we are marking a number of anniversaries of iconic civil rights struggles. The […]Read more "Civil Rights Struggles Around the World"

By Carol HinzEditorial Director, Millbrook Press Working on an illustrated book is always exciting—you’re never completely sure how the book will look until the artist sends in the final art. Art often comes to us digitally (whether it’s because the artist works digitally or because the artist scans or photographs the finished pieces), but we […]Read more "The Artwork Is Coming!"

by Anna CavalloEditor The calendar may say we officially have another week and a half of summer, but this year–at least in Minnesota–fall followed the cultural schedule and dutifully came with Labor Day weekend. The days are mild, the nights are suddenly chilly. Thanks to an early spring and a wet summer, we are enjoying […]Read more "You Know It’s Fall When…"

A gentle reminder, if I may? You really should come to this if you can. But don’t take my word for it. Listen to Liz. Or Leila. Or Jen. You might also be enticed by our keynote. And if all of this fails, and you need a schedule, well, stay tuned. We’ll be announcing it next week.Read more "KidLit Con 2010"

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director, TFCB With the school year starting, it’s so exciting to have a brand new pile of TFCB books to crow about. If you haven’t had a chance to read Betsy Bird’s wonderful write-up on her Fuse #8 blog about the Fall 2010 Lerner offerings (including those of TFCB and […]Read more "TFCB: Fall 2010 Is Here!"

A day that will live in teen infamy. A day that will never happen again. Yes, today is 90210, as in Beverly Hills 90210. And who says 90210 had no literary merit? No place on a book blog? Nonsense! Witness, Dylan McKay, Byron scholar: <img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_DRH_8nTKpLY/TH_Um9qlX3I/AAAAAAAAAmQ/bhgYPxCB-R0/video1ff07f1c2af1%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none;" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('ebd043a7-d756-44c7-be2a-9821b34be9ba'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = […]Read more "9.02.10"

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director, TFCB I’ve had my head in the clouds lately, reading a lot of material about outer space. It’s galaxies and nebulae that particularly intrigue me, and I recently learned that you can easily pick out the Orion Nebula in the sword of the Orion constellation just below the three […]Read more "NIGHT SKY"

By Carol HinzEditorial Director, Millbrook Press I am trying to forgive Greg for blogging about the website I Write Like before I had a chance to get to it. I can totally come up with another topic for a blog post on the spur of the moment. No hard feelings, though, really. Moving on . […]Read more "I Write Like, the Sequel"