Here we are in the first full week of October, and to me, that means just one thing: We are right in the thick of my favorite time of year—fall! Just because they make me happy, here’s a collection of fall-themed Lerner books:                             Read more "It’s Here!"

  (Cover above: Saturday Night Live by Arie Kaplan) On February 15, 2015, SNL plans to air a three-hour primetime special to mark its fortieth season on the air. TFCB is ready to celebrate, with the Fall 2014 release of Saturday Night Live: Shaping TV Comedy and American Culture by Arie Kaplan. The book offers […]Read more "“Live from New York, It’s Saturday Night!”"

Congratulations to Dianne H (Library Di)! You’ve won Science Gets It Wrong! Please send us 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’s giveaway is an exciting one for all you YA lit fans out there: Perfectly Good White Boy by Carrie Mesrobian, […]Read more "Free Book Friday: Perfectly Good White Boy by Carrie Mesrobian"

Wow, these books are cool.                Let’s Watch the Weather, the new set in our beloved First Step Nonfiction brand, addresses the weather and climate strand of the Next Generation Science Standards. The books have gorgeous photos. Just look at that cover on What Is Severe Weather?!!! (Not that I’m […]Read more "Free teaching guide for First Step Nonfiction: Let’s Watch the Weather"

On page 21 of Fourth Down and Inches, author Carla Killough McClafferty quotes an entry from the private diary of the coach of the Harvard University football team. In that entry, the coach, who was the highest second-highest paid employee of the university, recounts minimizing a player’s concussion to avoid a PR disaster: “Since football […]Read more "The past is never dead."

Oh, say have you seen Lerner’s newest Cloverleaf subset titled Our American Symbols? As the designer for this series, I had the wonderful opportunity to work on these fun, fact filled books.Written by Martha E. H. Rustad and illustrated by Holli Conger and Kyle Poling, these books are an informative lesson for young children on […]Read more "Our American Symbols"

Congratulations to Betsy Brown (@phlockteacher)! You’ve won Bug on a Bike! 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 book in the mail. This week, enter to win Science Gets It Wrong, a four-book high-interest series that examines scientific missteps—some […]Read more "Free Book Friday: Science Gets It Wrong"

It happens at least once every season. There’s a particular Lerner series that I fall head-over-heels in love with. This season, that series is Name That Text Type! (cover pictured). Just why do I adore it? Let me count the ways. 1. It’s all about a topic near and dear to my heart: language, literature, […]Read more "My Book Crush"

 “Kids today.”  Those two words, when uttered, can make me feel firmly planted in middle age. There’s a lot of talk about “kids today” and what they do or don’t do, what they say, and what they like. In my job as Associate Art Director for Lerner Publishing Group I need to know about “kids […]Read more "Learning how to PAAAAAR-TAY!"