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eBooks Basics: A Quiz!

Special thanks to Digital Production and Trafficking Manager Sarah Olmanson for challenging us this week! Ready to test your eBook knowledge? Have a go and check your answers tomorrow! (Hint: Most questions have more than one correct answer.) 1. How many eBook formats are there? a. Too many to count b. 20 to 30 […]Read more

Back in the Day

By Sara E. Hoffmann, School & Library Series Managing Editor I adore vintage children’s books. And so today, just for fun, I reached waaay back in the Lerner archives and grabbed this title Lerner published back when its focus was on medical books that explained common ailments to children. (Did you guys know this was […]Read more

Free Book Friday: Women’s History Month Edition

It’s finally Friday again, and we’ve got another double giveaway for you! But first, congratulations to Monika Schroder, who’s won a copy of The Maypop Kidnapping and The Midnight War of Mateo Martinez. Monika, send your address to publicity@lernerbooks.com and we’ll get your book in the mail. In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re giving away two YA nonfiction […]Read more

When the Text Gets Complicated

Our goal is to produce the most interesting, curriculum-appropriate yet entertaining books possible. We look to current events and hot topics of the year when creating series and brainstorming books. But sometimes we editors are faced with a unique challenge: fitting a complicated topic to a younger reading level. Whether a series […]Read more

Celebrate Women’s History Month with Lerner Digital!

Special thanks to intern Spencer Hanson for the following post! Read about the past and present achievements of women during March, Women’s History Month. From fighting for their political rights to breaking through the barriers that have barred women from institutions and careers dominated by men, the contributions of women throughout history can be explored […]Read more

Collections

Happy Book Birthday!

It’s the first of March, which means we’ve got several titles hitting the shelves of bookstores and libraries near you: Picture Books Their Great Gift: Courage, Sacrifice, and Hope in a New Land, written by John Coy with photographs by Wing Young Huie Middle-Grade Novels The Black Dragon (Mysterium #1) by Julian Sedgwick The Bolds, written […]Read more

I hear some final picture book art arrived today…

“What now?” I didn’t realize this was a thing people wondered, until a member of our publicity team stared at me wide-eyed with rapt attention and asked “what now…?” after hearing that we had received the physical paintings for one of our picture books. To those of us who do the daily putting together of […]Read more

Free Book Friday: Middle-Grade Madness, Part 2

Happy Free Book Friday! First, congratulations to Daniel Morrell, who’s won a copy of Scar Girl. Daniel, send your address to publicity@lernerbooks.com and we’ll get your book in the mail. We’ve got another middle-grade madness double giveaway for you today! Enter to win a copy each of The Maypop Kidnapping and The Midnight War of Mateo […]Read more

Author Interviews

Photographer Wing Young Huie Interviews Author John Coy

Today, John Coy and Wing Young Huie, the author and photographer team behind Their Great Gift: Courage, Sacrifice, and Hope in a New Land, take over the blog again! Their Great Gift has received three starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly. In this post, Wing interviews John. To read John’s interview of Wing from last week, click […]Read more

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