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In the News with TFCB: Speaking Up for What Is Fair and Right

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director of Twenty-First Century Books Over the years, TFCB has tackled some extraordinarily tough topics for YA readers. Our Spring 2019 list is no exception, with Fake News and Exposing Hate coming out from Mike Miller, one of the imprint’s newest writers. (Welcome, Mike!) The subject matter is tough because […]Read more

New Year, New Audisee eBooks with Audio

By Kate Schefer, Digital Products Coordinator Every season we work to expand our current collection of Audisee® ebooks with Audio. We hope to reach every reluctant and struggling reader with a diverse range of topics, reading levels, and genres. And this season is no different! Read on to see a few of our highlighted titles, […]Read more

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Makerspace Roundup

By Sara E. Hoffmann, School & Library Series Managing Editor January 17 is a red-letter day in the world of STEAM! It’s Ben Franklin Day and Kid Inventors’ Day. Libraries can celebrate these occasions today—and all year through!—by encouraging kids to try their hand at their own inventing and/or creative projects, whether those projects be […]Read more

Flight of a Starling: Cover Thoughts

By Danielle Carnito, Trade Art Director A novel cover came across my desk sometime last year, from one of our UK partners. That cover was for Flight of a Starling, by Lisa Heathfield. As we’re publishing the North American version of this book (coming out on Feb 5, 2019!), my job at this point was […]Read more

Blending Nonfiction and Fiction: 4 Recent Picture Books

By Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books Once upon a time, I learned that there were two types of books–fiction and nonfiction. Fiction was imaginary, and nonfiction was true. And then I became a children’s book editor and occasionally found myself working on some very fiction-y nonfiction. Or is it nonfiction-y […]Read more

Enjoy the Classics in a Modern Format

By Kate Schefer, Digital Products Coordinator Every Spring we release a handful of classic works in the public domain. These range from novels, to essays, poems, short stories, and plays for use in any kind of classroom. But since they’re in the public domain, anyone can publish them. What makes our First Avenue Classics versions […]Read more

Patrons Interested in Publishing? Suggest an Informational Interview!

by Jenny Krueger, Publishing Director for School and Library Most of us working at Lerner Publishing Group have powerful memories of our school and public libraries. As an educational publisher with a long history of supporting the mission of libraries big and small, we live and breathe the library world.Read more

Celebrating 60 Throwback Thursdays!

by Lara Neel, Trade Marketing Manager Lerner Publishing Group will celebrate 60 years of publishing in 2019, but we’re starting our celebration early online so that we can have 60 Throwback Thursday posts on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook!Read more

The Art (Award) of the Vast Wonder of the World

By Danielle Carnito, Trade Art Director I was recently able to travel to NYC to attend the opening reception of the Society of Illustrators 2018 Original Art show, a yearly juried exhibition celebrating the year in exemplary children’s book illustration. I was so happy to be in attendance to help celebrate with this year’s Dilys […]Read more

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