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FREE Activities for Ghost Walls

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"
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This is a call

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"
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Greetings from PictureBookLand

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"
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It’s Here!

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!"
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Free Book Friday: Perfectly Good White Boy by Carrie Mesrobian

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"
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The past is never dead.

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."