Apparently the recent outbreak of unusually snowy weather in the south and east of the U.S. has been fodder for climate change skeptics. An NPR piece on this subject leads this way: “With snow blanketing much of the country, the topic of global warming has become the butt of jokes.” Jokes? Okay, I’ll admit to […]Read more "The Stakes"

[Recently, Adam Lerner, president & publisher of Lerner Publishing Group, met with U.S. Representative Keith Ellison (DFL-MN). Below is a recounting of their meeting by Adam Lerner.] Several weeks after we won the Coretta Scott King Author Award for Bad News for Outlaws–The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, U.S. Marshal, I mentioned it to a […]Read more "Not Such "Bad News"– A Meeting with Representative Keith Ellison"

by Erin Finnegan, NY editorial intern Continuing on with writer spotlights from last week’s look at Trina Robbins, this week I interviewed Colleen AF Venable, the author of our hilarious and cute new series Guinea Pig, Pet Shop Private Eye, with art by Stephanie Yue, who was in the spotlight in November. Q. What was […]Read more "GU Comics Day: Spotlight on Colleen AF Venable"

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director, TFCB When I was a young person, I read books one at a time, from start to finish. I thought doing otherwise was not allowed. One of the benefits of age is that you get to approach your leisure reading in the full awareness that there are no laws […]Read more "Reading List"

by Laurie Friedman (Author of the Mallory series; I’m Not Afraid of This Haunted House; Love, Ruby Valentine; and Thanksgiving Rules) As an author of children’s books, I feel very lucky. I get to spend every day doing what I love most . . . writing books for kids and connecting with readers. But some […]Read more "Valentine’s Day Cheer Inspired by Books"

By Carol HinzEditorial Director, Millbrook Press One of the Super Bowl commercials that caught my eye last week involved two rather wimpy-looking guys with cell phones facing two sumo wrestlers. The guys had to use their phones, which had internet connections, to figure out how to say “I surrender” in Japanese.One guy tried to look […]Read more "I Surrender/Akirameru"

[Here’s Anna Cavallo, back with another interesting post on the ever-changing world of learning and content.] On Wednesday, one of the Publishers Weekly blogs, Shelftalker, led me to a YouTube video that I can’t get enough of: Scholar Ladies (Get an A on It). <img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_O5xmTWZ5QaY/S3VXV8wSyJI/AAAAAAAAAIU/BPlgq5qifGI/video5bb0fa1c4535%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none;" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('38001ebb-da76-4f5a-bc32-89888305b110'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = […]Read more "Growing Up in the YouTube Age"

There were a couple interesting stories in the news this week that caught my attention. First, as I understand it, Asperger’s syndrome is no longer something doctor’s will diagnose. It’s now part of the autism spectrum, at least as far as the DSM is concerned. You can hear more about it in this NPR piece.  […]Read more "Science and Stigma"

I have one of the most beautiful aromatic bouquets of flowers in my office—an early Valentine’s Day present. As we cozy up to this holiday, I became intrigued by its origins. They start in the Roman period and became associated with martyred Christians. The “love connection” didn’t get going until many centuries later. Young men […]Read more "Love Connection"