The Lerner Blog

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director, TFCB The stories coming out of Haiti, with the recent devastating earthquake, are heartbreaking. Updates posted throughout the day on the Lede blog on the New York Times website offer readers and viewers an amazing mix of text reporting and video footage related to the disaster. From among many […]Read more "Haiti"

I like it when history works out well. One hundred years ago this month, Bass Reeves passed away in Muskogee, Oklahoma, bring to an end one of the most remarkable stories in African- American history and in the history of the American West. And today, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Bad News for Outlaws: […]Read more "Congratulations Vaunda Micheaux Nelson!"

By Sara HoffmannSenior Editor In my last post, I wrote about Is That a Fact? (cover pictured)—a Spring ’10 Lerner series that sets out to answer some puzzling, offbeat, and sometimes silly questions, such as: Can you cure nighttime leg cramps by sleeping with a bar of soap? and Is it possible to swing 360 […]Read more "Six Questions for Sandy Donovan"

Before I begin an unapologetically odd post, I want to wish all the authors at ALA this weekend good luck (I won’t be there, but many of my colleagues will). Carolrhoda has had some fantastically successful titles year, and I am very proud to have them mixing it up in what has been a distinguished […]Read more "Here, Kitty-Kitty…"

I had to laugh when the January issue of School Library Journal landed in my box, with an interesting article by John Green on the future of reading. The magazine’s cover image reminded me a lot of a sketch Harry Lerner drew many years ago as his idea for how, with new technology, information could […]Read more "Great Minds"

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By Carol HinzEditorial Director, Millbrook Press Did you hear about the college basketball player who made a game-winning 70-foot shot earlier this month? If you missed it, here’s it is (keep watching to see the replay): Of course, this isn’t the longest shot ever made. For many years, the NBA record was a 79-foot shot […]Read more "One for the Record Books?"

How much would it cost today, in US dollars, to build the Lighthouse at Alexandria? What academic degrees do funeral directors earn? How do soap bubbles form? What were the exact words Neil Armstrong said when he set foot on the Moon? What’s the name of that figure of speech—like where you call the president […]Read more "Looking for Answers"

January has become Sally Walker month in my office. It’s also, by my declaration, editorial shoe disclosure month (precedent). Just wait and see how the two go together. First, as you might have heard, it’s insanely cold in Minnesota. Your humble blogger recently acquired a pair of Steger Mukluks (yes, that Steger), so he could […]Read more "Sally!"