Behind the Scenes – Page 24

Jeff Fleischer on electability, voter suppression, electronic voting, and more

by Ashley Kuehl, executive editor To celebrate the March release of the Zest Books YA nonfiction title Votes of Confidence, 2nd Edition: A Young Person’s Guide to American Elections, I asked author and journalist Jeff Fleischer to explain some terms and trends we’re seeing in the news. Votes of Confidence gives young readers a clear, […]Read more

Tracking Pythons: Science Up Close

by Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books If you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen me mention my 6-year-old son’s obsession with Kate Messner’s new book Tracking Pythons: The Quest to Capture an Invasive Predator and Save an Ecosystem. Read more

All of a Sudden and Forever

by Danielle Carnito, Trade Art Director It isn’t every book where the creators and the publishing team all visit the site of a book’s events. It isn’t every book where you happen to check your social media on a holiday weekend and notice pictures the illustrator is posting from her trip to the site.Read more

New Digital Formats Deliver Your Favorites in Science, Sports, and Social Studies

by Kate Campbell, Digital Products Coordinator Every season we work hard to bring you quality Lerner content in every standard format. From print to digital and beyond, we’re looking to reach readers of every skill level, ability, and interest. Let’s take a look at what’s now on offer in Audisee ebook with audio and audiobook […]Read more

Picture Books + Social and Emotional Learning

by Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books I don’t remember quite when it happened, but at some point last fall, I realized I was hearing the letters “SEL” a lot. And I had some sense that SEL referred to something called “social and emotional learning,” but I couldn’t articulate exactly what […]Read more

Red Menace and the Historical Fiction Sweet Spot

by Amy Fitzgerald, Editorial Director, Carolrhoda Books I love historical fiction. For a long time, though, I half-consciously regarded anything that was in the past but still within “living memory” as a sort of dead zone between history and the present.Read more

Garfield’s Taking STEM by Storm

By Andrea Nelson, Associate Editor, Partnerships and Foreign Product Management STEM, with its four branches—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—has been a mainstay topic at Lerner for decades. Our customers and readers can’t get enough, so it was a no-brainer for us to add more STEM-related books to our Spring 2020 season. But for some students, […]Read more

Where Have All the Bees Gone?

by Shaina Olmanson, Associate Editorial Director for Twenty-First Century Books and Zest Books We may all be busy bees, but it may be time to take a break and read Rebecca Hirsch’s new book, Where Have All the Bees Gone? Why should we care?Read more

A Girl Like Me: Creating Photocollage Illustrations

by Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books I’m endlessly fascinated by how illustrators create artwork for picture books. It’s not so much the technical details that I find compelling; it’s the process of determining what image will best accompany a given word or phrase or paragraph on a page.Read more

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