This guest post comes courtesy of the fabulous Rebecca L. Johnson. Kids often ask me where I get ideas for my nonfiction, science-focused books, such as my new title with Millbrook Press, Masters of Disguise: Amazing Animal Tricksters. The simple answer is that I read—a lot. Science journal articles, science blogs and magazines, science digests […]Read more "Research and the Magic of Reality"

Happy Friday! Congratulations to Melanie Burton (@TheGingerLib), who’s won Whose Hands Are These?: A Community Helper Guessing Book. Melanie, send your address to publicity@lernerbooks.com and we’ll get your book in the mail. In honor of Black History Month, we’re giving away a copy of Don’t Call Me Grandma, written by Coretta Scott King Honoree Vaunda Micheaux Nelson […]Read more "Free Book Friday: Don’t Call Me Grandma"

I was reunited with an old friend recently—a friend I hadn’t thought about in years. Her name is Laura Ingalls Wilder. The yellowed copy of Little House on the Prairie apparently came in one of the (many) boxes of books I keep slowly moving out of my parents’ house each time I visit. But I […]Read more "Old Friends"

As a publisher committed to providing exceptional books to schools and libraries, it thrills us to hear reports of increased circulation. More books being borrowed usually means more kids are reading…and that’s why we do what we do! As someone who works to provide our content digitally, it thrills me even more to hear reports […]Read more "Libraries Lend Record Number of Digital Books Last Year…Again!"

Please welcome author Rebecca E. Hirsch to the Lerner blog today! Below she shares some good news about Galápagos tortoises. When I write about endangered animals, I try to make young readers think critically about these animals and their habitats. I want readers to care about endangered species, and I always look for conservation success […]Read more "The Remarkable Story of the Pinta Island Tortoises"

Happy Friday! Congratulations to Jessica Holmes, who’s won The Bolds and The Executioner’s Daughter. Jessica, send your address to publicity@lernerbooks.com and we’ll get your books in the mail. Today, enter to win Whose Hands Are These?: A Community Helper Guessing Book, written by Miranda Paul and illustrated by Luciana Navarro Powell. If your hands can mix and mash, what […]Read more "Free Book Friday: Whose Hands Are These?"

Today, Whose Hands Are These? author Miranda Paul and illustrator Luciana Navarro Powell talk about how they came to write a picture book about hands.  Luciana (L) and Miranda (R) 1. Miranda, you placed a very unique spin on a common topic—community helpers. How did you get the idea to focus on the hands of community helpers […]Read more "Q&A with Miranda Paul and Luciana Navarro Powell"

We at Lerner Publishing Group celebrate the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on this day. We recognize that his spirit lives on in the work to which so many Americans of the twenty-first century commit themselves, striving for a fairer, more just and peaceful life for all. It is a good […]Read more "Martin Luther King Day 2016"