The Lerner Blog

Maybe it’s just me, but autumn always gets me thinking about the past. Perhaps it’s the changing colors of the trees or the approach of Halloween and the dwelling on ghosts and ruins. Regardless, I can’t help thinking about how the world has changed in the last few months, years, decades, centuries. I wonder what […]Read more "FREE Activities for Ghost Walls"

I’m going to ask for something completely unfair. Unless you attended opening night of this year’s Children’s and Young Adult Literature Conference at The Loft Literary Center, you probably haven’t seen the Czech film Who’s Afraid of the Wolf. The 2008 film was shown at The Loft thanks to a University of Minnesota professor’s connection […]Read more "This is a call"

I’ve been living in a place known as “PictureBookLand” recently. All the spring 2016 books need to get to illustrators—or are currently with illustrators—and of course said books need to be edited before they go to the illustrators. (Crazy, right?!) In addition, I’ve been giving out a lot of advice about picture books—to authors, to […]Read more "Greetings from PictureBookLand"

Congratulations to Mrs. Winter (@librarywinter)! You’ve won Perfectly Good White Boy! Please send us a DM on Twitter or an email to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com with the subject line “Free Book Friday” and your mailing address so we can get your book in the mail. Our next free book offering is the perfect picture book for kids who are afraid of throwing […]Read more "Free Book Friday: Nancy Carlson’s Sometimes You Barf"

Here we are in the first full week of October, and to me, that means just one thing: We are right in the thick of my favorite time of year—fall! Just because they make me happy, here’s a collection of fall-themed Lerner books:                             Read more "It’s Here!"

  (Cover above: Saturday Night Live by Arie Kaplan) On February 15, 2015, SNL plans to air a three-hour primetime special to mark its fortieth season on the air. TFCB is ready to celebrate, with the Fall 2014 release of Saturday Night Live: Shaping TV Comedy and American Culture by Arie Kaplan. The book offers […]Read more "“Live from New York, It’s Saturday Night!”"

Congratulations to Dianne H (Library Di)! You’ve won Science Gets It Wrong! Please send us an email to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com with the subject line “Free Book Friday” and your mailing address so we can get your books in the mail. This week’s giveaway is an exciting one for all you YA lit fans out there: Perfectly Good White Boy by Carrie Mesrobian, […]Read more "Free Book Friday: Perfectly Good White Boy by Carrie Mesrobian"

Wow, these books are cool.                Let’s Watch the Weather, the new set in our beloved First Step Nonfiction brand, addresses the weather and climate strand of the Next Generation Science Standards. The books have gorgeous photos. Just look at that cover on What Is Severe Weather?!!! (Not that I’m […]Read more "Free teaching guide for First Step Nonfiction: Let’s Watch the Weather"

On page 21 of Fourth Down and Inches, author Carla Killough McClafferty quotes an entry from the private diary of the coach of the Harvard University football team. In that entry, the coach, who was the highest second-highest paid employee of the university, recounts minimizing a player’s concussion to avoid a PR disaster: “Since football […]Read more "The past is never dead."