Rhetorical questions aside (we’re always ready for Free Book Friday, right? No one ever thinks, “If only this Thursday with no reading material could last a little longer!”)…let’s hear it for Lindsay Peck, winner of our coveted copy of The Twelve-Fingered Boy! Send your mailing address to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com so that you can start reading it from cover to cover […]Read more "Who’s Ready for Free Book Friday?!"

Those of you who’ve been following my posts for a long time (hi, Mom and Dad) know that I am a grammar curmudgeon. Seeing grammatical errors makes me … well, a little crabby! Since you’re reading a school and library publisher’s blog, I suspect you can relate to my affinity for grammar (if not the […]Read more "Still Curmudgeonly"

In case you haven’t heard the good news yet, the new and improved Lerner Interactive Books™ product line is now officially up and running. The blood, sweat, and tears of the valiant Adriano Fruzzetti (I have to mention him in every blog post because of our under-the-table endorsement deal) have been converted into the snazzy enhancements you’ve […]Read more "Digital Dreams Do Come True"

Last week, Patricia alluded to an accolade that hadn’t previously been mentioned on our blog. I’m pleased to share the details today: A Leaf Can Be . . . by Laura Purdie Salas and illustrated by Violeta Dabija is a Minnesota Book Award finalist in the Children’s Literature category!  This was a wonderful book to be […]Read more "An Abundance of Good News"

Welcome to a new month, book-lovers! However many weeks of winter may be left, it can’t hurt to have a free book for the hibernation season. Today–the 53rd anniversary of the first sit-in at a Greensboro, North Carolina lunch counter–seems a fitting day to give away a book about one of the civil rights movement’s […]Read more "A Very February Free Book Friday"

This week, I’ve mentioned to a few folks that January has felt like it’s been both a year long and a day long. Has your 2013 felt this way as well? We’ve had so many exciting things happening at Lerner this past month, not to mention the accolades (CSK Honor! Batchelder Honor! MN Book Award […]Read more "Managing Time"

This year’s Digital Book World Conference and Expo may have come and gone, but for those of us whose sole window to that world lay in the pithy Tweets of Lerner VP Terri Soutor, much of its wisdom still remains to be discovered. This week, while compiling the legendary Adriano Fruzzetti Memorial Web Links (don’t worry, […]Read more "A Ponderer’s Digital Potpourri"

If you missed the American Library Association’s presentation of the 2013 Youth Media Awards this morning–and are wondering if Lerner came away with any laurels–wonder no longer. Now that the cheering has died down, some more coherent congratulations are in order….Carolrhoda Lab’s No Crystal Stair, written by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, is an ALA 2013 Coretta Scott King Author Honor […]Read more "Bookish Ballyhoo: Lerner at ALA Youth Media Awards"

   (Left: First page of Lincoln’s second inaugural address, March 4, 1865, in his hand. Right: Cover of Lincoln by David Herbert Donald) With the second inauguration of President Barack Obama last week, I happened to be finishing David Herbert Donald’s wonderful biography of Abraham Lincoln, called simply Lincoln. Although Donald quotes liberally from Lincoln’s […]Read more "Writing It Out"