Designers are highly visual people. (Go figure.) And, designers draw inspiration from anything around them—which is one reason why it is so important to see and do new things. Or to see the regular everyday in a new perspective. You never know when inspiration will hit, or when any of the knowledge and bits of […]Read more "Textures & patterns: Design inspiration"

Wow! Thanks to all of the new readers who left comments on our last Free Book Friday post! It’s always exciting when we know new people are visiting the Lerner Books blog.  A huge congratulations goes out to Suzanne Romero and Y. Rena Williams! You have both won copies of Tillie Pierce: Teen Eyewitness to the Battle […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

And thus you should always look under the jacket.Read more "Designers are sneaky"

Production editor Heidi Hogg is back with another fantastic post. Here’s Heidi!Katherine Pierce from The Vampire Diaries. Chuck Bass from Gossip Girl. Doctor Evan Marks from Beauty and the Beast. Malcolm Merlyn from Arrow. What do all these characters have in common? They’re villains. Heroes get all the praise, but a good villain is what […]Read more "Villains!"

Hey, baseball season! Is that you? It’s hard to see you among all the spring thunderstorms here in Minnesota. Here’s some guaranteed baseball fun, no matter what the weather forecast looks like. Today’s featured eSource downloads, which focus on the Common Core English Language Arts Standards, are for the Carolrhoda title Something to Prove: The Great […]Read more "Baseball, Common Core, and African American History"

Memorial Day is the time we remember the honored dead, from all walks of life. I’ll be sitting under a big maple tree at the grave of a dear friend this weekend. We bring her flowers from our garden every year and remember our long, happy friendship with her. She came into a turn-of-the-century world, […]Read more "Memorial Day 2013"

Did you hear that media conglomerate Yahoo! just bought wildly popular microblogging site Tumblr? Well, it happened. More details here:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324787004578493130789235150.html Much of the media coverage around this event has focused on the financial aspects of the deal and on how these two companies will change and influence one another. But let’s take a step back […]Read more "A biography, a (micro)blogging site, and a billion dollars"

It’s show season! Staff from Lerner recently attended the International Reading Association (IRA) conference in San Antonio. In a few weeks, we’ll be heading out to Book Expo America (BEA) in New York, International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) in San Antonio, and American Library Association (ALA) in Chicago. For many of us, the […]Read more "Making Connections"

Hey everyone, This week’s digital update is a quick one. Working on a whole bunch of eBooks and iBooks. Wanna know which ones? Here’s a sneak peek: And now, your internet links of the week! Irish potato famine mystery solved after 168 years Okla. tornado survivor finds dog buried alive under rubble Mom makes daughter […]Read more "New eBooks!"