I’m exhausted. We have a new puppy at home. A terrier mix. For those of you who know dogs, that’s a lot of work. Puppies are rambunctious and erratic, and they do all kinds of things you don’t want them to do—every single day. And terriers are a lively, keenly intelligent, demanding breed. It’s like […]Read more "It’s a Dog’s Life!"

Congratulations, Jeanette W. Stickel! She is the winner of our Graphic Universe prize pack! Please send your mailing address to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com and we will get your books shipped out! Spring is definitely in the air and that means baseball season! With opening day for Major League Baseball less than a week away, we want to […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

Do you have Hunger Games fever? The HG movie has been all over the news ever since it opened last Friday. I haven’t seen it yet, but I did get the inside scoop on one of its key players when I got to edit Lerner’s Jennifer Lawrence biography (cover pictured, left). Jennifer, of course, plays […]Read more "Hunger Games Fever"

If you’re like me, you’ve heard the term “Pinterest” bandied about the internet in the past few months, but have only a vague understanding that it might possibly be a website that has something to do with photos…maybe? As it turns out, we were totally right about that photo website thing. Pinterest is a social […]Read more "A Pinteresting Read"

How is it almost April already? With these first few months of 2012 speeding by, it’s nearly time for Passover, beginning this year on the evening of April 6. In preparation, check out Sarah’s Passover, one of the six new holiday titles in the Cloverleaf Books brand.                                Young Sarah (through the engaging writing of […]Read more "Sarah’s Passover"

Congratulations to @KristineAsselin! She is the winner of The Knife and the Butterfly by Ashley Hope Pérez! This week we’re giving away a Graphic Universe prize pack filled with new Spring 12 books! One lucky winner will fill his or her bookshelves with the new Miss Annie series, Lou! series, and the new graphic novel […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

[I asked Sarah, one of our production editors, to blog today.] How many people does it take to make a manuscript into a great book? That sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it’s also a great question to ask a group of school kids. I recently talked to small group of K-8 students […]Read more "It Takes a Company"

Louboutins! I’m sensing There is a deep and profound (read: confused) silence out in blogreaderland at this name. You’re wondering this: Louboutins? Really? How is that possible? I didn’t think they allowed that kind of style in the Midwest. Don’t the inhabitants wear only muck boots and old kangaroo sneakers? Maybe some puffy moonboots lined […]Read more "Anonymity and Shoes—Red Suede"

Last Wednesday morning, I hopped on the subway from Brooklyn and headed to the Graphic Universe office at the Empire State Building in Manhattan. But on that day, the GU office was just a temporary stop to grab a box of books and then to continue my way uptown to an elementary school. By uptown […]Read more "Graphic Universe Artist Inspires at "Career Day""