Congratulations to Jane Moore Houghton! You’ve won Handle with Care! Please send an email to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com with the subject line “Free Book Friday” and tell us your mailing address so we can get your book in the mail. This week’s free giveaway is Our Great States, a series of books that are great for both state reports and summer road trips. […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

Coming back to the office from Fourth of July madness? Then you’re definitely in the right mood to take a look at Fad Mania: A History of American Crazes, new this fall from Cynthia Overbeck Bix and TFCB. It’s a crazy—and informative—romp through a century’s worth of American fads. You’ll learn about everything from the […]Read more "Fourth of July Craziness!"

You guys, we live in a pretty awesome country. That’s the thought that kept occurring to me as I did my pre-publication reviews of the books in the Our Great States series (cover pictured). These books will go on sale just in time for the fall 2014 school year. The Our Great States titles mention […]Read more "Our Great States (aka My Personal Travel Guides)"

We’re in the midst of launching the Fall ‘14 season here on the Lerner Publishing Group blog. What that means behind the scenes is that the Content Team (Art, Editorial, Photo Research, and Premedia) is done putting the Fall books together, and for the past couple of months have been hard at work on the […]Read more "Fall’s (mostly) away, Spring covers will play"

Congratulations to Evi Reznick! You’ve won our new Show Your Character series! Please send us a DM on Twitter or an email to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com with the subject line “Free Book Friday” and tell us your mailing addresses so we can get your books in the mail. This week, enter to win Handle with Care: An Unusual Butterfly Journey by Loree Griffin Burns, […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

I recently read an article in The Atlantic called “The Confidence Gap.” In it, Katty Kay and Claire Shipman discuss differences in how self-assured men and women are in their professional lives and what that ultimately means for their careers. There’s a lot to think about, but as often happens, I got to thinking about […]Read more "On Confidence and New Books"

Congratulations to ZB Library (@zblibrary)! You’ve won Traumatic Brain Injury! Please send us a DM on Twitter or an email to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com with the subject line “Free Book Friday” and tell us your mailing addresses so we can get your book in the mail. This week, enter to win the Show Your Character series. Using a question-and-answer format and real-world […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

Lerner books follow me everywhere. A few weekends ago I stopped at my local Saint Paul library (yes, the most shocking place to discover a Lerner book…but hear me out) and in the midst of browsing the history section I happened to come across a suspiciously skinny, suspiciously tall volume. My radar immediately told me […]Read more "Look What I Found…"

Hey everyone! We’ve been hard at work getting all of our digital goodies ready for Fall 14. While I can’t talk about our top secret new digital product, I will give you a sneak peek at some of our new Interactive Book offerings! For those of you who are not familiar with our iBooks, they […]Read more "Interactive Books: Fall 14 Sneak Peek"