Sarah Olmanson, production editor extraordinaire, blogs about famous siblings. Enjoy her super fun piece about sibling love…and rivalry! The NFL conference championship games were held this last weekend. Two teams were left standing after hard-fought victories. And both of those teams are led by Harbaughs. That’s right—this year, for the first time, two brothers are […]Read more "A Little Sibling Love"

We’re honored to lace up the gloves for SLJ’s 2013 Battle of the Books. Our fighter is ready, and so are his corner men. No Crystal Stair likes its chances very much.Read more "In this corner…"

Yesterday morning, Adriano sidled up to my cubicle and presented me with his iPad. As Lerner’s marketing intern, I’m used to this–not because staff members regularly give me expensive gifts, but because I’ve been helping Adriano test out the new batch of Lerner Interactive Books™. After he handed me the iPad, loaded up with a fresh […]Read more "Digital Bonhomie: An Imaginary Conversation with Adriano"

Happy Thesaurus Day, bookworms! (This week’s random fact: Wordsmith Peter Mark Roget was born on January 18, 1779.) We’re delighted/thrilled/tickled to announce that Deirdre Franzen is the winner of Shaking the Foundation: Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution from Twenty-First Century Books. Send your mailing address to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com and we’ll get your books in the mail for you! Next […]Read more "Free/Gratis/Complimentary Book Friday! (And Thesaurus Day.)"

(That title is “vs.” as in “compared to,” not as in “battling it out in the UFC cage.” Usually. Hopefully.) One of the most intriguing water-cooler conversations I’ve had in the Lerner editorial department was a couple years ago when a colleague asked me, “Are you a writer or an editor?” This could be a […]Read more "Writer vs. Editor"

Have you heard about the new nonfiction K-12 booklist that the National Endowment for the Humanities is developing? It’s partly in response to the nonfiction emphasis of the Common Core State Standards and will be a great pairing with the NEH’s summer reading list. See the press release below (via ALA) for more information about […]Read more "Nonfiction Rules!"

Welcome to the end of another week, book-lovers–and congratulations to Tanya, the winner of Millbrook Press’s Cloverleaf Books ™–Community Helpers series! Please send your mailing address to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com and we’ll get your books in the mail for you! Now for a bit of trivia: On this day in 1844, British naturalist Charles Darwin confessed in a letter to a […]Read more "TGI(FB)F: It’s Free Book Friday!"

It’s that time of the week again, and this Friday, ORION SCHOOL VIEW wins the six titles in our new Start to Finish: Everyday Products series from Lerner Publications. Please send your mailing address to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com and we’ll get your books in the mail for you! If you made a New Year’s resolution to seek out mind-expanding books for curious […]Read more "A New Year, a New Free Book Friday"