The Lerner Blog

Photo Archivist/Editor Todd Strand today answers the questions “wait–do I work with that person on that book cover?” and “Hm. What kinds of interesting things might I find in a K-12 book publishing employee’s home…” The staff of Lerner Publishing Group really does have a wide range of interests and talents, not to mention an […]Read more "LPG: A photo resource unto itself"

TGIF! Who wants FREE books? First, congratulations to Nicole Levesque (@BlueSockGirl)! You’ve won Dear Wandering Wildebeest! 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. This week we’re giving you the chance to win The Alternative, a […]Read more "Free Book Friday: Patrick Jones’ The Alternative"

Have you ever made a shadow puppet or played with a prism? Or perhaps you’ve made a rubber band guitar or a telephone out of cans and string? One of the joys of childhood is discovering that how to play with sound and light. Lerner’s new First Step Nonfiction Series – Light and Sound guides […]Read more "Light and Sound: FREE Teaching Guide"

The Loft asked me for a blog post about diversity in kidlit: “It’s so easy as an adult to fall into rigid and boring habits of mind about what young people “need” from us—as if all we had to offer was medicine—but a great thing about teaching a class for teens about fisticuffs and fornication […]Read more "We want diverse books"

As summer comes to an end and we look ahead to the Labor Day holiday weekend, it seems fitting to remember Cesar Chavez and the struggle for farmworkers rights, encapsulated beautifully in Stuart A. Kallen’s We Are Not Beasts of Burden: Cesar Chavez and the Delano Grape Strike, California, 1965-1970 (TFCB, 2010). And lest we […]Read more "Remembering Those Who Fight for Us"

Congratulations to Robin Nyzio (@readingrobin)! You’ve won Party Time! 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 books in the mail. This week, enter to win Dear Wandering Wildebeest: And Other Poems from the Water Hole, a delightful collection of […]Read more "Free Book Friday: Dear Wandering Wildebeest"

Attention, authors! The Lerner Publications imprint here at Lerner Publishing Group is seeking unedited, unpublished School & Library nonfiction writing samples at the K-8 level to help us expand our author pool. Please send your samples to SHoffmann@lernerbooks.com. Only samples from published and experienced S&L authors will be considered. Submissions will only be considered as […]Read more "Seeking Samples"

This April, in response to an all-white, all-male panel at BookCon, the hashtag #WeNeedDiverseBooks exploded. The publishing world started having more conversations about how to change and improve the diversity in children’s and young adult literature, and the public at large started pushing for more diversity in children’s books as well. As a photo researcher, […]Read more "Diversity and Photo Research"

Congratulations to Sarah Bauman (@Cowboysfan36)! You’ve won Transgender Lives! 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. This week, enter to win our four-book Party Time! series, a set of books that will make party planning a […]Read more "Free Book Friday: Party Time!"