The Lerner Blog

Happy Free Book Friday! First, congratulations to Jenni Elyse (@jenni_elyse), who’s won The Immortal Throne. Jenni, please send your address to publicity@lernerbooks.com so we can get your book in the mail. Today we’re giving away a copy of the LGBTQ+ Athletes Claim the Field: Striving for Equality by Kirstin Cronn-Mills and Alex Jackson Nelson. In 2015, the world watched as soccer […]Read more "Free Book Friday: LGBTQ+ Athletes Claim the Field"

I’m a Neighborhood Geek, you guys. I love, love, love my city, my community, and pretty much everything in them. So it will come as no surprise that I also adore National Night Out (known as Night to Unite in many communities, including mine). It’s coming up on August 2. And in this year in […]Read more "National Night Out Reading"

Greg Hunter, Senior Editor The view from Arena Verlag, in Würzburg Back in June, I had the pleasure of attending the German Book Office’s annual Editors’ Trip. Each summer, the GBO, a project of the Frankfurt Book Fair, invites a handful of editors from North American (and elsewhere) to learn more about the German publishing industry, […]Read more "Notes from a Tour of German Publishing"

Special thanks to intern Rachel Burnham for the following post! With growing attention paid to STEM studies in schools, it is important to get your children excited about science and inspire them to follow their dreams, no matter how big. Check out the new Fall STEM Trailblazer Bioswith Lerner Digital, and follow the lives of several […]Read more "Trailblazing Women in STEM"

Close-to-home getaways are my favorite. I love acting like a tourist in places just outside my own back door. Do you have close-to-home spots you love escaping to on weekends? Here are a few of mine, straight from the pages of What’s Great about Wisconsin? and What’s Great about Minnesota? (Although I have to confess, some […]Read more "Weekend Retreats"

Happy Free Book Friday! First, congratulations to Joanna Bloehm, who’s won The Thief’s Apprentice. Joanna, please send your address to publicity@lernerbooks.com so we can get your book in the mail. Today we’re giving away a copy of the final book of Bree Despain’s Into the Dark trilogy: The Immortal Throne. Haden Lord chose love over honor when he chose to […]Read more "Free Book Friday: The Immortal Throne"

Today on the blog, we’re featuring books that Lerner Publisher Services distributes for small presses and international publishers. Here are a few notable titles coming out this fall: Bicycling to the Moon, written by Timo Parvela and illustrated by Virpi Talvitie (Gecko Press) Written by Finland’s number-one children’s author, this captivating and funny chapter book […]Read more "Spotlight on New Fall Titles Distributed by Lerner Publisher Services"

Special thanks to intern Rebecca Rowell for the following post! In little more than two weeks, the 2016 Summer Olympics will get underway in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The games open on August 5 and close August 21. During that time, sports fans will have a feast of events to choose from as athletes from […]Read more "Honoring Olympians"

I have two sons. The older one is almost six and the younger one just turned three. I’m both fascinated and frustrated by how they can react entirely differently to a food based on how it’s presented. Serve up some grapes that have been plucked off the stem, washed, and placed in a bowl for […]Read more "Format Is Everything"