The whole “big and strong” thing (think Bob Schieffer’s mother) is the message that has stuck in my mind from this year’s round of presidential and vice-presidential debates. And since tomorrow is Election Day, my message is the same as that of Bob Schieffer’s mother: “Go vote. It makes you feel big and strong.” For […]Read more "Voting, It Makes You Feel Big and Strong"

Congratulations to @tchrben! He is the winner of Their Skeletons Speak: Kennewick Man and the Paleoamerican World by Sally M. Walker and Dr. Douglas Owsley! @tchrben please send your mailing address to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com and we’ll get your book in the mail for you! This week, just in time for hunting season, one lucky winner will receive our brand new Great Outdoors […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

I’ve been traveling a lot the past few weeks, and part of those travels took me to my home state of South Dakota. While there, I had the chance to catch up with classmates, a couple of whom are teachers in small town public schools. Education funding is lean in SD. By lean, I mean […]Read more "The SLJ Leadership Summit and a Trip to South Dakota"

In keeping with the major storm that just brought so much havoc to the east coast, I thought I’d touch briefly on how comics, in one form or another, have informed us about the subject of hurricanes. In vivid fashion, you can discover the Eisner and Harvey Award nominated graphic novel and webcomic series A.D.: New Orleans After […]Read more "Comic Books and Hurricanes: A Brief Sampler"

Q: Name a spooky holiday coming up that DOESN’T start with H. A: If you said Day of the Dead, or Dia de los Muertos, you’re correct! We published Daniela’s Day of the Dead as part of our Cloverleaf Books—Fall and Winter Holidays set this fall. Daniela is a young girl who misses her grandfather. […]Read more "A Spooky Time of Year"

Congratulations to GeoLibrarian! She is the winner of The Normal Kid by Elizabeth Holmes! GeoLibrarian please send your mailing address to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com and we’ll get your book in the mail for you! After a great article featuring the Kennewick Man and Their Skeletons Speak: Kennewick Man and the Paleoamerican World ran in newspapers across the country last weekend we’ve had lots […]Read more "Free Book Friday"

Okay, am I the only person out there who didn’t know the term blob storage? A BLOb refers to “a collection of binary data stored as a single entity in a database management system. Blobs are typically images, audio or other multimedia objects” (thank you Wikipedia!). I love the term because I often feel that […]Read more "BLOb Storage"

Congratulations to Ms. Kappel! She is the winner of Do You Know Dewey? written by Brian P. Cleary and illustrated by Joanne Lew-Vriethoff! Ms. Kappel, please send your mailing address to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com and we’ll get your book in the mail for you! This week one lucky reader will win The Normal Kid by Elizabeth Holmes! Sylvan has been […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"