What are your healthy habits? I try to eat at least two servings of fruit and two servings of vegetables each day. I drink loads of water. I go to the gym two or three times a week, and in nice weather, I ride my bike to work and to run errands. I wash my […]Read more "What are your healthy habits?"

Go here. (I promise it doesn’t link to the Toby Keith song.)Read more "Pass the red Solo cup of poor life choices, please."

Hello everyone! I have been neck-deep in new products lately, so I apologize for the lack of posts. My inbox has been flooded with angry emails demanding more internet goodness, and I do have a lot saved up! So here we go! https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/uaWA2GbcnJU&source=uds The Berenstein Bears: We Are Living in Our Own Parallel Universe For […]Read more "Digital Tuesday: Web Gems!"

Our last snowstorm was just a couple weeks ago, so I’m trying to think good thoughts about the rain that has been falling for the last day and a half. Fortunately, Millbrook just came out with two new books that are perfect rainy-day reads. The first is Water Can Be . . ., a new […]Read more "April Showers and Books about Water"

Congratulations to Karen Greenberg! You’ve won a copy of Returning to Shore! 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’s Free Book Friday giveaway is the First Step Nonfiction – Responsibility in […]Read more "Free Book Friday with Free Teaching Guides!"

Production editor Erica Johnson is back on the blog today with some fascinating news to share about Neil deGrasse Tyson. Take it away, Erica! Science, space, time…these are topics so massive that they can be hard to comprehend. Fortunately, there are great books and television programs to help us! I’ve been watching the TV series […]Read more "Cosmos and The Wonders of Science"

Ever wonder about public domain images? Photo Editor Todd Strand has some insight on the topic: As a photo editor I am constantly looking for new sources of imagery to help illustrate our books. One of the more interesting developments in image research is the advent of public and private institutions opening up online some […]Read more "Thank You, Public Domain"

Congratulations to Tammi Laney (@tammi3kids)! You’ve won a copy of Chasing the Storm: Tornadoes, Meteorology, and Weather Watching! 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. It’s time to give away a YA novel! […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

Anybody remember the 1996 film Twister? No? Well, I don’t blame you, but I may never forget the day I watched 42 minutes of it in my middle school science class. We never finished it, so I didn’t get to find out whether the least memorable astronaut from Apollo 13 (Bill Paxton, the good guy) […]Read more "Storm’s a-comin’…along with FREE teaching resources!"