I write this while perching on the outer edge of my remaining work hours before I throw all my remaining paid time off to the winds and celebrate the holidays far away from my Lerner desk. And I’m absolutely positive that the books I’m working on will turn out better as a result of my […]Read more "Take Breaks; Make Better Books"

Congratulations to Heidi (@soundlyread)! You’ve won The Sharp Sisters! Please send us a DM on Twitter or an email to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com with the subject line “Free Book Friday” and your mailing address so we can get your books in the mail. Christmas break is days away! To help you get in the holiday spirit, we’re giving away Santa Clauses: Short […]Read more "Free Book Friday: Santa Clauses!"

If you’re like me, you’ve started collecting wish lists from your friends and families in preparation for the approaching holiday season. And, like me, perhaps your online shopping cart includes a random assortment of items such as bow ties, books in Latin and Greek, loops for making chain mail (yes, my brothers are some of the coolest […]Read more "FREE teaching guide for Robots Everywhere!"

Congratulations to Judith Agosto! You’ve won Dino-Boarding! Please send an email to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com with the subject line “Free Book Friday” and your mailing address so we can get your book in the mail. We’re giving away another of our Darby Creek high-low series this week. Stephanie Perry Moore’s The Sharp Sisters follows five sisters as they strive to make their mark on […]Read more "Free Book Friday: Stephanie Perry Moore’s The Sharp Sisters"

The holidays are coming! At my place, that means decking the halls with festive decorations, making tasty treats to share, and prepping special gifts to honor friends and family. Our Plan a Holiday Party book—which, I might add, recently received a dazzling review in School Library Journal’s Series Made Simple supplement!—has great ideas for pulling […]Read more "Merry and Bright Ideas"

So I got this email a couple years ago. And I followed Tess’s advice, and I bought the  manuscript, and Kate worked like crazy on it. And for a while I thought this guy: Was as imaginary as this guy: Kate straightened me out eventually, and she still liked me enough that she told me […]Read more "A chain of events"

Much like putting together a next-day meal that works from varied leftovers, Senior Production Editor Erica Johnson today finds a way to combine bits of a whole–Thanksgiving Dinner, design, and math–in today’s returning-from-the-holiday-weekend blog post. (And she does a much better job at it than me putting together this blog intro!): We’re back to work […]Read more "Designing Math"

I love holidays for many reasons, one of which is that I usually catch up on reading. This Thanksgiving holiday is no exception. In my pile are two twentieth-century American classics and a twentieth-century British classic. Every year at Thanksgiving, my father reads aloud Truman Capote’s The Thanksgiving Visitor. When I was young, I didn’t […]Read more "Thanksgiving 2014: Domenica’s Reading List"

Congratulations to Christina Taylor! You’ve won The Red Zone! Please send an email to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com with the subject line “Free Book Friday” and your mailing address so we can get your books in the mail. This week, enter to win Dino-Boarding, the latest installment of the Dino-Sports picture books written by Lisa Wheeler and illustrated by Barry Gott. The dinos are […]Read more "Free Book Friday: Dino-Boarding"