The Lerner Blog

Blythe Woolston’s Loa has a poem for today. It just so happens that it’s by my favorite poet. Here’s a bit from Woolston’s The Freak Observer: I have to find a poem for English class. The whole class does. We have all been turned loose in the library on a scavenger hunt, an Easter egg […]Read more "“I have to find a poem for English class…”"

By Carol HinzEditorial Director, Millbrook Press A few years ago, the website www.brianpcleary.com was born. One of the features of this site is POW, the poem of the week. On the site’s main page, you’ll find it on the right-hand side along with WOW, the word of the week. I think that poetry can seem […]Read more "A Website That Packs a POW!"

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director, TFCB (Left: the work space of poet Dylan Thomas; CC/Wikimedia) Several years ago, at about this time of year, my sister was describing to me the way that her cockatiel went mad every spring. He generally had the run of her apartment, marching about happily and cooing at her […]Read more "The Green Fuse"

by Erin Finnegan, NY editorial intern Every year the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Arts hosts an independent comics convention, known as MoCCA Festival (or, usually, just called MoCCA as well). Held at the 26th Street Armory on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan, this year MoCCA had over 400 artists. The mood and market are similar […]Read more "GU Comics Day: Reporting on MoCCA 2010"

Earth Day has come and gone, but that doesn’t mean that we should forget about its significance. In order to help draw attention to Earth Day and to our new Mallory title, Mallory Goes Green, we’ve had a special promotion running during the month of April. The promotion gives visitors to www.mallorymcdonald.com the ability to […]Read more "Last Chance to Read the “Mallory on the Move” E-book Online for Free!"

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director, TFCB I just had one of our IT guys in my office updating my computer. I keep getting error messages when I try to print stuff, and he did some magic so that the messages no longer appear—at least for now. This reminds me of a wonderfully funny video […]Read more "IT Help Desk—Then and Now"

By Carol HinzEditorial Director, Millbrook Press Bob Rackza’s latest book is Speaking of Art: Colorful Quotes by Famous Painters. The book presents quotations from a whole range of artists, from Vincent van Gogh to Georgia O’Keeffe to Grandma Moses to Keith Haring. Each quote is paired with one painting. In the spirit of the book, […]Read more "Speaking of . . ."

by Anna CavalloAssociate Editor Yesterday, Earth got quite a bit of attention. The media was all over the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, and I’d imagine most classrooms didn’t let the day pass without lessons, activities, or discussions related to taking care of our planet. This is fantastic, in my opinion; yes, let’s have a […]Read more "The Day After Earth Day"

Sally Walker’s fall 2010 book, Frozen Secrets, is about Antarctica, and  I’ve spent most of my Earth Day wrapped up with the last stages of the book’s layouts. This seems to me quite an appropriate activity for a day that should be devoted to understanding and protecting the state of our planet. Working on this […]Read more "(Bottom of the) Earth Day"