Check out Garance Dore’s incredible blog (that’s two live links, one to a New York Times article about Garance Dore herself and the other directly to her blog). Garance captures Paris street fashions through delightful fashion photos, and you can read what text there is in English or in French. She gives you both choices […]Read more "Paris Street Fashion"

Lately, I’ve been seeing references to Weird Al’s picture book, When I Grow Up, all over the place. This weekend, NPR even had an interview with Mr. Yankovic. This interview included a discussion of the delightful illustrations, which are by Wes Hargis. I’m not surprised at positive reactions to the artwork. After all, before he […]Read more "I Know That Artist!"

We have a winner! After looking at dozens of pictures of beautiful cats (it’s a hard job, but somebody has to do it!), the Purr-fect Picture contest board is pleased to announce that Jeanne Kraus and her cat Lil’ Bit are the winners of a new set of books from Elaine Landau’s The Best Cats […]Read more "Purr-fect Picture Contest Winner"

Calling all fans of big hair, individuality, and cuteness! We’re excited to have Big Bouffant, written by Kate Hosford and illustrated by Holly Clifton-Brown, out there in the world as one of Carolrhoda’s Spring 2011 picture books. When young Annabelle decides to imitate her grandmother’s bouffant after seeing her classmates’ uniform hairstyles on the first […]Read more "A Big Bouffant Is All I Really Want!"

I find it so intriguing that we’re finding creative ways to continue to do old-fashioned journalism and storytelling with twenty-first-century technology. Take a peak at The Atavist, a new boutique publishing house that is producing nonfiction pieces specifically for digital, mobile reading devices. The works cross a variety of disciplines, and as digital creations, they […]Read more "Throwback to Modernity"

Who wants to win FREE books? In honor of the launch of The Best Cats Ever series we are giving away a library bound set of all eight books! All you need to do to enter is post a “purr-fect” picture of your favorite cat on our Lerner Publications Facebook page by Friday, February 25 […]Read more "Purr-fect Picture Contest"

Yesterday’s New York Times had an article about people (especially young people) using Facebook and Twitter more than they’re blogging. A quote that caught my attention came from Elisa Camahort Page, co-founder of the women’s blog network BlogHer. She said: “If you’re looking for substantive conversation, you turn to blogs. You aren’t going to find […]Read more "The Decline of Blogging?"

Following up on my last blog post, I invited author Elaine Landau to guest blog about her experience in writing The Best Cats Ever series. Here’s Elaine! –Sara Hoffmann, Senior Editor The poet E. E. Cummings once wrote, “A cat is a cat is a cat.” That now-famous saying implies that all cats are pretty […]Read more "Here, Kitty Kitty"

http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=us/2011/02/16/whitfield.the.green.book.cnn Calvin Ramsey talked to CNN about the Green Book and his picture book. Check it out. Aside form the history lesson, you get a peek at Calvin’s excellentsense of style. (When he met with my colleagues in marketing in New York a while back, he was sporting a tuxedo. All my other authors should […]Read more "Ruth and the Green Book on CNN"