I just got a letter (left) from my niece’s oldest daughter, who is five. She got stationery for Christmas and was eager to use it to thank me for sending her some leaf art we had done together earlier this winter so she could put it in the picture book I gave her for Christmas. […]Read more "Starting the New Year with a Smile"

If you read this blog regularly or read children’s nonfiction regularly, then you surely know the name Sandra Markle. Sandra has written more than two hundred nonfiction books for children. We have published her books in both our Lerner imprint and Millbrook Press. Highlights include the Arachnid World series, Animal Heroes: True Rescue Stories, and […]Read more "Markle’s Book Explorers"

Whew! We survived the first week back after holiday celebrations and a very happy New Year! So let’s celebrate again with Free Book Friday! This week three lucky winners will win The White Zone by Carolyn Marsden! Nouri and his cousin Talib can only vaguely remember a time before tanks rumbled over the streets of […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

Sometimes people ask me if I have a favorite among the books I’ve edited. I always tell them no. Asking me to pick a favorite book is a bit like asking a parent to pick a favorite child. All my projects are my babies. Having said that, there’s usually a book or two each season […]Read more "A Favorite"

Read this. I have said before, and I now feel more confident in saying it again: electronic picture books prove just how high tech paper picture books actually are and the conversion from print to digital is way trickier for picture books than for just about any other form. I think Shatzkin’s excellent overview is […]Read more "Trifurcation"

Unshelved is a webcomic by librarian Gene Ambaum and cartoonist Bill Barnes. Book lovers, librarians, and teachers (that is to say, most of Lerner’s audience) will appreciate this light hearted look at every day life at the library. Every Friday their Unshelved Bookclub reviews a variety of books (there are usually a few graphic novels […]Read more "Humor for Librarians"

I have a special fondness for classic romance comics. It’s a genre that has long since died out, but in its hey day (the late forties though the early fifties) it was HUGE. In 1949 romance comics, comics made for girls and young women, outsold all other genres. It’s a fact that is missing from […]Read more "A Little Holiday Reading"

<img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-lQMkHPJe8GQ/TvIZxTROhoI/AAAAAAAAAlE/3znAO87boas/video2b62539c7a2a%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('ccb4fe72-77fe-4667-aeee-3d29d39b1e9f'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = " http://www.youtube.com/v/uwGfeh7NQTo&hl=en“;” alt=””> Okay, so I said I wasn’t going to post on the 27th, but I saw the Bolshoi’s Nutcracker last week via HD transmission and was completely transfixed. I hadn’t seen this ballet since I was in high school, and it felt […]Read more "Magic"