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Happy Book Birthday!

It’s the first of March, which means we’ve got several titles hitting the shelves of bookstores and libraries near you: Picture Books Their Great Gift: Courage, Sacrifice, and Hope in a New Land, written by John Coy with photographs by Wing Young Huie Middle-Grade Novels The Black Dragon (Mysterium #1) by Julian Sedgwick The Bolds, written […]Read more

I hear some final picture book art arrived today…

“What now?” I didn’t realize this was a thing people wondered, until a member of our publicity team stared at me wide-eyed with rapt attention and asked “what now…?” after hearing that we had received the physical paintings for one of our picture books. To those of us who do the daily putting together of […]Read more

Free Book Friday: Middle-Grade Madness, Part 2

Happy Free Book Friday! First, congratulations to Daniel Morrell, who’s won a copy of Scar Girl. Daniel, send your address to publicity@lernerbooks.com and we’ll get your book in the mail. We’ve got another middle-grade madness double giveaway for you today! Enter to win a copy each of The Maypop Kidnapping and The Midnight War of Mateo […]Read more

Author Interviews

Photographer Wing Young Huie Interviews Author John Coy

Today, John Coy and Wing Young Huie, the author and photographer team behind Their Great Gift: Courage, Sacrifice, and Hope in a New Land, take over the blog again! Their Great Gift has received three starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly. In this post, Wing interviews John. To read John’s interview of Wing from last week, click […]Read more

Delve Deeper into the Oscars with Lerner Digital!

Special thanks to intern Spencer Hanson for the following post! The 88th Academy Awards will air live on ABC this upcoming Sunday, February 28! Lerner eBooks offer a chance to learn more about this year’s Oscar nominees and the real people and events that inspired their films. Jennifer Lawrence has already won one Oscar for Best […]Read more

Win an Author Visit from Len Vlahos!

Enter the #ScarGirl Display Contest for a Chance to Win an Author Visit from Len Vlahos! To participate, bookstore owners, teachers, and school/public librarians can create a Scar Girl book display and share photos of it between March 1 and April 15. Submitting is easy! Here’s how: 1.) Create a rocking book display inspired by the […]Read more

Make the Leap!

Leap Day is one week from today. What will you do with your extra day in February? One fun idea is to use that day to explore something you’ve never tried before—and encourage the kids in your life to do the same. Here are some ideas—presented in book-cover form!—for little hands to try on Leap […]Read more

Free Book Friday: Scar Girl

Happy Friday! Congratulations to Kirsten Larson, who’s won Presidential Powerhouses. Kirsten, send your address to publicity@lernerbooks.com and we’ll get your books in the mail. This week, enter for a chance to win Scar Girl, the sequel to Len Vlahos’ Morris Award-nominated YA novel, The Scar Boys. When The Scar Boys ended, the band has fallen apart. Harry and […]Read more

Author Interviews

Author John Coy Interviews Photographer Wing Young Huie

Today, John Coy and Wing Young Huie, the author and photographer team behind Their Great Gift: Courage, Sacrifice, and Hope in a New Land, take over the blog! Their Great Gift has received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly. In this post, John interviews Wing, and in next week’s post Wing will interview John. […]Read more

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