The Lerner Blog

Happy Free Book Friday! First, congratulations to Brittany Johnson, who’s won Believe Your Eyes. Brittany, 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 Thief’s Apprentice, the first book in Bryan Method’s exciting new Master Diplexito and Mr. Scant middle-grade series. Oliver, the meek son […]Read more "Free Book Friday: The Thief’s Apprentice"

What a week.  Last Tuesday we heard the news out of Baton Rouge, of video of police shooting Alton Sterling after pinning him down outside a convenience store.  Late Wednesday night into Thursday morning, the issue hit us at home in the Twin Cities, as a video circulated of the aftermath of another police shooting. […]Read more "Current Events"

Special thanks to Jeff Mitchell for the following post! Lerner Digital is releasing 103 new Lerner Interactive Books™ for fall, our largest season of Interactive Books yet! These eBooks are designed to improve literacy skills and reading confidence for struggling and emergent readers in grades K-6. They feature three speeds of audio narration to model […]Read more "Interactive Books for Fall"

Longtime readers of this blog may know I’m endlessly fascinated with speech. One thing that especially fascinates me is the way phrases change over time. For example, people used to say a book or movie was “based on” a true story if it was about something that actually happened. Now, everybody says “based off of”—and […]Read more "Generational Speak"

Today, author Rebecca E. Hirsch stops by the blog to talk about writing, gardening, and Komodo dragons. 1. You’ve written more than twenty books for Lerner, most of which are on science topics. How did you decide to be a writer, and how did get into writing science books for children? Growing up I had many outdoor adventures. […]Read more "Q&A with Rebecca E. Hirsch"

Special thanks to Jeff Mitchell for the following post!The 2016 ISTE Conference and Expo was June 26-29 in Denver, CO, and representatives from Lerner Digital were there…along with 500 other companies! ISTE—the International Society for Technology in Education—is a community dedicated to making learning and teaching more meaningful and impactful for educators and learners worldwide. […]Read more "ISTE 2016"

Happy Free Book Friday! First, congratulations to Stephanie Van Horn, who’s won Masters of Disguise: Amazing Animal Tricksters. Stephanie, 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 Believe Your Eyes, the first book in the Cici: A Fairy’s Tale series by Cori Doerrfeld and Tyler Page! […]Read more "Free Book Friday: Believe Your Eyes"

Founder and former CEO of Lerner Publishing Group Harry Lerner traveled the world to help make Lerner the company it is today. Here he shares the story of how he met Muhammad Ali. I remember this as if it was yesterday. We had an exhibit at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October, 1975. Frankfurt was […]Read more "From the Archives"

Editor Alix Reid on attending ABA Children’s Institute: I attended the Children’s Institute conference last week in steamy Orlando and attended lots of fascinating panels about graphic novels, leveled reading, the importance of stories, and the state of children’s books (we’re doing well! Especially compared to adult books! Growth in all areas! Graphic novels are […]Read more "Children’s Institute and the Wonderful Independent Booksellers"