As summer comes to an end and we look ahead to the Labor Day holiday weekend, it seems fitting to remember Cesar Chavez and the struggle for farmworkers rights, encapsulated beautifully in Stuart A. Kallen’s We Are Not Beasts of Burden: Cesar Chavez and the Delano Grape Strike, California, 1965-1970 (TFCB, 2010). And lest we […]Read more "Remembering Those Who Fight for Us"

Congratulations to Robin Nyzio (@readingrobin)! You’ve won Party Time! 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. This week, enter to win Dear Wandering Wildebeest: And Other Poems from the Water Hole, a delightful collection of […]Read more "Free Book Friday: Dear Wandering Wildebeest"

Attention, authors! The Lerner Publications imprint here at Lerner Publishing Group is seeking unedited, unpublished School & Library nonfiction writing samples at the K-8 level to help us expand our author pool. Please send your samples to SHoffmann@lernerbooks.com. Only samples from published and experienced S&L authors will be considered. Submissions will only be considered as […]Read more "Seeking Samples"

This April, in response to an all-white, all-male panel at BookCon, the hashtag #WeNeedDiverseBooks exploded. The publishing world started having more conversations about how to change and improve the diversity in children’s and young adult literature, and the public at large started pushing for more diversity in children’s books as well. As a photo researcher, […]Read more "Diversity and Photo Research"

Congratulations to Sarah Bauman (@Cowboysfan36)! You’ve won Transgender Lives! 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 our four-book Party Time! series, a set of books that will make party planning a […]Read more "Free Book Friday: Party Time!"

I have always been a bit squeamish. I don’t like bathroom humor, I’ve never laughed at a fart, and all but the tamest euphemisms for bodily functions tend to make me uncomfortable. Even typing the word fart in the last sentence made me cringe. So consider my surprise when the first book I fell in […]Read more "Street Pigs and Euphemisms: a History of the Toilet"

  (This is a picture of Attorney General Edwin Meese, who commissioned the Meese Report on Pornography. He’ll be keeping an eye on things, just so no one gets the giggles. The following post acknowledges the existence of sex.) I had the pleasure last week of teaching a class with Carrie Mesrobian at the Loft Literary […]Read more "Lessons from Teen Writers"

Our new website launched over the weekend, and I feel like it would be silly to blog about anything other than that today. I haven’t had much of a chance to explore it yet, but please take a look and let us know what you think!Read more "Oooooh, shiny!"

Congratulations to Bree Dumont! You’ve won Beetle Boy! Please send an email to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com with the subject line “Free Book Friday” telling us your mailing address so we can get your book in the mail. This week, enter to win Transgender Lives: Complex Stories, Complex Voices, written by Stonewall Award-winner Kirstin Cronn-Mills. “I didn’t hear the word transgender until I was […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"