Congratulations to Christina Taylor (@cetaylor05)! You’ve won The Story of Owen! 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 Plastic, Ahoy!: Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Plastic: it’s used […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

You guys, the librarian in the elementary school I went to was wonderful. I was remembering this just the other day as I was pondering why I feel drawn to high-interest subject matter in books. See, he used to say that if you didn’t like a book, you should put it down immediately. He firmly […]Read more "For the Love of High Interest"

A couple of weeks ago, Lerner Digital (and the rest of the Lerner crew) invaded New Orleans for the annual IRA conference. For those of you who don’t know, IRA stands for International Reading Association. IRA is attended mostly by teachers and literacy pros, which is exactly the kind of people who enjoy Lerner Digital […]Read more "LD Gone Wild: New Orleans"

On the heels of finishing up our fall season, I’m reflecting on how much actually goes into the book making process. Publishing books is more involved than meets the average eye. Most people who are not in the industry have little insight as to how a book is made and just how long it can […]Read more "Another Season Well Done!"

Congratulations, Jennifer! You’ve won The Cryptid Files 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 book in the mail. This week, enter to win E. K. Johnston’s The Story of Owen, a YA alternative history novel described by The […]Read more "Free Book Friday: The Story of Owen!"

Left: Seaman First Class Robert Needles, 1946  Right: Bombs Over Bikini (cover) by Connie Goldsmith. Connie recently had the opportunity to interview an Operation Crossroads veteran. Here’s an excerpt from their conversation, in which they talked about the nuclear testing program that is the subject of Connie’s latest book for TFCB. Serendipity is a wondrous […]Read more "Robert Needles Remembers"

Congratulations to Crystal Allen (@clallen1971)! You’ve won Scarlatti’s Cat from Carolrhoda Books! 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 Cryptid Files, a three-book mystery series sure to attract […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

Back in March, I was at the Minnesota Book Publishers’ Roundtable, listening to Lerner editor in chief Patricia Stockland speak about developmental editing whilst I stuffed my face with free edibles, and a fascinating thing happened. Of course Patricia and both of her fellow panelists were brilliant and informative (a recording of the talk is […]Read more "In Praise of Mistakes: Life Lessons and Children’s Publishing"

Whenever I tell someone I’m a children’s book designer I get a delighted “Ah!” followed quickly with: But what do you do? The answer is decidedly unglamorous: I solve problems. Need a design for a tattoo/piercing book for tweens AND teens?*  Or a series teaching character values to 2nd graders that doesn’t feel like a […]Read more ""Behind" the Scenes: Making a Book about Butts"