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"

Special thanks to intern Isabel Taylor for the following post! Monday the 18th marks this year’s Martin Luther King, Jr. day, a day on which we commemorate one of the greatest activists of our nation. A lot has been published on Dr. King, and Lerner is no exception. Here are just a few of the […]Read more "eBooks for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day"

Happy Free Book Friday! We’re kicking off our Spring 2016 title giveaways with a middle-grade madness double giveaway. Enter to win a copy each of two UK imports: The Bolds and The Executioner’s Daughter. The Bold family seems fairly normal, but they’re keeping one hilarious secret: they’re hyenas. That’s right—they’re covered in fur, have tails tucked into their […]Read more "Free Book Friday: Middle-Grade Madness Round 1"

It’s been quite a week for Carolrhoda Lab™! On Monday, Ashley Hope Pérez’s Out of Darkness received a Printz Honor at the ALA Youth Media Awards. The Printz Award and Honors are given to the best of the best in YA literature, and to be recognized by the committee is quite an achievement. Ashley missed two calls […]Read more "Congratulations to Ashley Hope Pérez!"

Lerner Publishing Group has received two prestigious 2016 American Library Association (ALA) Youth Media Awards! This morning the ALA announced at the Midwinter Meeting in Boston that Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez is a recipient of the Michael L. Printz Honor and The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore, written by […]Read more "Lerner Wins Printz Honor and CSK Illustrator Honor!"

Just for fun, and in celebration of the gorgeous snowfalls Minnesota winters always bring, here’s a kid-friendly quatrain poem (a poem that has four lines in each stanza) by Trudi Strain Trueit from our book What Is Poetry? (cover pictured below).First Snowfall “Pardon me, Teacher?” No talking, I know. “Just look! Outside! It’s starting to snow!” […]Read more "Winter Fun"

ALA Midwinter starts today! Visit Lerner in booth 1920 to preview titles we’ve got lined up for Spring 2016. We’ll also be holding two signings with two authors each. Middle-grade author Elizabeth Atkinson, children’s author Terry Farish, picture book author Kate Hosford, and debut novelist Kara Storti will all be in the booth signing free […]Read more "Visit us at ALA Midwinter!"