My colleagues and I gathered this morning to mark the passing of a talent who died far too young. With his musical genius and that scream! and his business savvy and his OMG sartorial style and his generosity to fellow musicians and fans alike, he made us proud. And yes, we published a Prince biography […]Read more "Sharing a Purple Moment for Prince"

Andersen Press has been awarded the Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publisher of the Year! The prize is given to publishers from six geographical areas of the world every year: Africa, Central and South America, North America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. Andersen Press claimed the prize in the European category this year, and it […]Read more "Congratulations, Andersen Press!"

Happy Free Book Friday, everyone! First, congratulations to RRHS Library staff (@rrhslib)—they’ve won Tripping Back Blue by debut author Kara Storti. Please send the address to publicity@lernerbooks.com and we’ll get your book in the mail! We’ve got a very Shakespeare-appropriate giveaway today: the Unbarred series. Once you’ve been in, it’s tough to stay out of jail. That’s […]Read more "Free Book Friday: Unbarred"

Earlier this month, Chief Meteorologist for KARE 11 News Belinda Jensen shared her new six-book series Bel the Weather Girl with young fans at the Wild Rumpus in South Minneapolis. Belinda taught readers that weather is not so scary once you understand it.   Making a cloud! Belinda’s daughter helped with the experiment. You can see Belinda at […]Read more "Bel the Weather Girl!"

Nadia Abushanab Higgins (above) and I had a great conversation recently about Feminism: Reinventing the F-Word (cover below), her new Spring 2016 YA nonfiction title for TFCB. In its recent starred review, Booklist praises the work, saying, “Higgins’ Feminism: Reinventing the F-Word offers a comprehensive and stunningly up-to-date account of the history of feminism.…With plenty […]Read more "Meet Nadia Abushanab Higgins"

It’s always dangerous to ask a person between the ages of 10 and 14, “What do you want?” Scratch that. It’s dangerous to ask any person that question. Which doesn’t mean you shouldn’t ask it—only that you should be prepared. People often want surprising, frightening, contradictory, impossible things. In many creative writing classes, “What does […]Read more "A Call for Middle-Grade Fiction Submissions"

This year’s race to the White House is certainly getting interesting. If you’re like me and you find yourself eating up the televised debates, social media discussions, newspaper editorials, and all the other media frenzy surrounding the upcoming election, then you’ll love our book Media: From News Coverage to Political Advertising (cover pictured). It’s just […]Read more "Election-Year Media: Making Sense of the Hype"