The Lerner Blog

Special thanks to Digital Support Analyst Spencer Hanson for this insightful post! In updating our whitepaper for educators about Lerner Interactive Books, I am discovering a lot of information about how reluctant and early readers engage with interactive books. In the long history of education, using this technology to help children read is very new, […]Read more "Interactive Book Features: Which Facilitate Reading and Which Are Distractions for Reluctant and Early Readers?"

Bullying breaks my heart. This form of abuse affects most kids at one time or another, whether they’re on the receiving end, the witnessing end (aka, the bystanders), or the ones doing the bullying.  Good resources on bullying are few and far between. So many books on bullying take a blame-the-victim stance, as I talk […]Read more "Be the Anti-Bully"

Happy Free Book Friday! First, congratulations to Sara, who’s won Timber Creek Station. Sara, 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 Black Dragon, the first installment in Julian Sedgwick’s middle-grade Mysterium series. Twelve-year-old Danny, who’s half-Chinese and half-British, had an unusual childhood. His parents […]Read more "Free Book Friday: The Black Dragon"

One of the biggest perks of my job is working with talented illustrators. Our group here works very hard to select the right illustrators for our books. Often we are searching agencies, artist websites, and promos that are mailed to us to find the perfect match. But sometimes that perfect illustrator comes to you without […]Read more "Adventures in Artist Hero Worship"

When I talk with teachers, librarians, and administrators about their mobile learning needs, one of the first questions I ask is whether they are a 1:1 or a BYOD school. That is, do they supply a device (e.g., laptop, tablet, e-reader) to each student or do they allow students to “Bring Your Own Device”? Every […]Read more "BYOD versus 1:1…What’s Right for My School?"

Happy Free Book Friday! First, congratulations to Naomi Michelson, who’s won #24 Change Is in the Air, Mallory and #11 Red, White & True Blue Mallory. Naomi, send your address to publicity@lernerbooks.com so we can get your books in the mail. Today we’re giving away a copy of Timber Creek Station by Ali Lewis. Originally published in the UK as Everybody Jam and […]Read more "Free Book Friday: Timber Creek Station"

I’m over the moon about the fact that June is here at last! How many of you out there can relate? This time of year is just full of so much goodness. From settling into a lounge chair with a book to seeing friends’ faces in the light of a flickering bonfire, there’s a lot […]Read more "Summer Love List"

We’ve got such a fantastic Carolrhoda Lab list this fall, we (almost) wish we could skip summer so that you all could read the books now. Follow the links below for more details on the books and to preorder them through our website. Naked ’76  The Stand-In  Wired Man and Other Freaks of Nature  Continuing […]Read more "Fall Carolrhoda Lab YA novels now available for pre-order"