The Lerner Blog

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director, TFCB My father is on an Atlantic cruise. He just landed at Ponta Delgada in the Azores and is scheduled to fly home on Sunday from Barcelona. But, there’s this Icelandic volcano that keeps erupting, and it’s unclear if his flight will be cancelled, like so many others have […]Read more "Stranded in Europe"

By Carol Hinz Editorial Director, Millbrook Press Back in February, I blogged about the new book Garbage Helps Our Garden Grow: A Compost Story. I promised then that it wouldn’t be the last time I wrote about the book, and I have something special today, just in time for Earth Day (April 22).The photographs in […]Read more "Earth Day: A Family’s Compost Story"

When I was working on the Unearthing Ancient Worlds series, I often thought how exciting it must have been “back then”—back in the days of amazing archaeological discoveries such as Pompeii, the tomb of King Tutankhamen, and Troy and Mycenae. It sometimes seems that now—as we focus our attention on the depths of the oceans […]Read more "Ancient Treasures"

It’s been my good fortune to work with dozens of amazing young-adult novelists, and a trend I find among them is that their artistic and intellectual pursuits often extend beyond writing fiction in surprising ways. The authors on the Lab launch list this fall are no exceptions, as you’ll see. Steve Brezenoff launched his trailer […]Read more "Convergence and extension"

by Erin Finnegan, NY editorial intern Paul D. Storrie is the author of many Graphic Universe books, including several volumes of Twisted Journeys (#03 Terror in Ghost Mansion and #05 Nightmare on Zombie Island) and many of our Graphic Myths and Legends books (Amaterasu, Beowulf, Hercules, Perseus, Robin Hood, William Tell, and Yu the Great). […]Read more "GU Comics Day: Shining a spotlight on: Paul D. Storrie"

Anna Walentynowicz, a powerhouse in the history of the modern Polish labor movement, died on April 10, 2010, in a plane crash in western Russia. The crash also killed Polish president Lech Kaczynski, along with ninety-five other people, many of whom were prominent military and civilian leaders in Poland. The country is in a state […]Read more "Labor Loses a Woman of Iron"

by Carol HinzEditorial Director, Millbrook Press Last night I was listening to Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), and I happened to catch an hour-long conversation between host Kerri Miller and author Colum McCann. I don’t always follow the adult literature world as closely as the children’s book world, so I wasn’t familiar with McCann’s novel Let […]Read more "Finding Inspiration"

By Sara HoffmannSenior Editor I’ve always been fascinated by regional accents. Maybe it’s because, like a lot of editors, I find language inherently interesting. Who knows? But for whatever reason, ever since I was a little kid, I’ve noticed things like the way Southerners sometimes say “pin” to describe the ink-filled thing we use to […]Read more "Speaking Minnesotan"

by Erin Finnegan, NY editorial intern This week I chatted with Der-shing Helmer, the artist behind Manga Math #4, The Kung Fu Puzzle: A Mystery with Time and Temperature. Der-shing has also done several Avatar the Last Airbender comics for Nickelodeon Magazine. Check out some sample pages here. What computer programs and/or what kind of […]Read more "GU Comics Day: Shining a spotlight on: Der-shing Helmer"