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Happy Book Birthday!

It’s Friday, and it’s also release day for the following fantastic books…what could be better? Picture Books Luis Paints the World, written by Terry Farish and illustrated by Oliver Dominguez Middle-Grade Novels The Executioner’s Daughter by Jane Hardstaff The Hunt for the Missing Spy by Penny Warner The Island of Beyond by Elizabeth Atkinson YA Novels Tripping Back […]Read more

Q&A with YA Author Kara Storti

Meet debut YA author Kara Storti! Her first novel, Tripping Back Blue, is available now. 1. Who inspired or encouraged you to write? A few teachers really stick out: A high school teacher told me that I had some talent. He encouraged me to write simply and simply write. I liked how he called me […]Read more

About That Door…

A few weeks ago, Alicia Bos, a teacher from Michigan, shared pictures of her classroom door decorated as the cover of Robin Yardi’s The Midnight War of Mateo Martinez, so we asked her what inspired her to make the door! Here’s what she had to say: Our school was challenged to a make our classroom doors […]Read more

The Final Four!

Special thanks to intern Spencer Hanson for the following post! The Final Four will be playing this Saturday to determine the match up for the NCAA Championship Game! Lerner Digital’s eBooks dig deep into the 77 year history of the NCAA tournament and the players that have made an impact during and after March Madness. […]Read more

Equation for a Book Cover Design

Ever wonder how all the parts of book cover get made and then put together? Here’s a simplified equation* of one recent cover, Tripping Back Blue by Kara Storti. + + = ** – x picture of feathers*** = * NOT PICTURED: all the parts of the equation when I was […]Read more

Free Book Friday: Floodwaters and Flames

Happy Friday, everyone! Congratulations to Carl Kurcinka, who’s won a copy of The Hunt for the Missing Spy. Carl, send your address to publicity@lernerbooks.com and we’ll get your book in the mail. Did you know that on this day in 1913, water from the Great Miami River flooded the city of Dayton, Ohio? The floodwaters wouldn’t recede […]Read more

Editor Carol Hinz Talks to Author Lois Miner Huey

Today, Floodwaters and Flames: The 1913 Disaster in Dayton, Ohio author Lois Miner Huey talks to Millbrook Press editor Carol Hinz about the book in particular and children’s nonfiction in general. Carol: I never heard about this massive 1913 storm and flood before you send me the proposal for this book. Where did you find […]Read more

Meeting Again, for the First Time: A Modern Tale of Author and Editor

After eleven books together, two series, some picture books, and a harrowing Boston Marathon experience, I finally got to have lunch with Laurie Friedman. Laurie and I first worked together about six years ago, when I jumped at the chance to edit #17 in her popular Mallory series: Oh Boy, Mallory. By that point, Laurie […]Read more

Congrats to our Award Winning Audisee™ eBooks with Audio!

This week Audisee™ eBooks with Audio was selected to be an EdTech Cool Tool Award Finalist! Congratulations Audisee team for the superb work. Our champion Audisee™ eBooks with Audio were also recently awarded this past fall; Audisee won an Award of Excellence from Tech & Learning and took home an Academic’s Choice Award! Check out […]Read more

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