How can I tell? It’s not the rivers of mud or the crocuses. It’s our shiny new imprint, Carolrhoda Lab: Allow me a moment of inarticulate glee and giddiness about this announcement. It’s no secret how important YA is to me, both as an art form and as a part of an important conversation about  […]Read more "Spring has sprung."

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director, TFCB Check out activities at your local library this week to see what’s up for Teen Tech Week. This event is a national initiative sponsored by YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) to encourage teens to make use of libraries’ nonprint services. Here in Minneapolis, our Hennepin County library […]Read more "Teen Tech Week (March 7-13, 2010)"

By Carol HinzEditorial Director, Millbrook Press Animal books are a staple of children’s nonfiction publishing. We offer books on everything from sugar gliders to ticks to pigeons. So I try to pay special attention when an interesting new piece of information about animals comes to light. A few days ago, I heard about some research […]Read more "Do Let the Pigeon Be an Art Critic?"

By Anna Cavallo, Associate Editor Last week a series of articles in The New York Times caught my attention—three pieces about the roller coaster ride a few oncologists and cancer patients have been on throughout a clinical trial for a new melanoma treatment. For trial patients with a certain variety of this deadly skin cancer, […]Read more "Cultivating the Next Generation of Cure Finders"

…at least not until someone gets really famous and/or dies. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9830948&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 The Magnum Photo Collection from kirk tuck and will van overbeek on Vimeo. The video is interesting to me as a photography geek,  but it also got me thinking about all the material that creative people and their publishers make in preparation for showing […]Read more "The Stuff You’ll Never See…"

by Erin Finnegan, NY editorial intern Our last writer spotlight with Colleen AF Venable is a hard act to follow. This week, I interrogated Evonne Tsang, author of Twisted Journeys #12: Kung Fu Masters and some of our upcoming books. (Right: Evonne Tsang and Alitha E. Martinez show off a copy of their book.) Q. […]Read more "GU Comics Day: Shining a spotlight on: Evonne Tsang"

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director, TFCB My maternal grandmother (at left, with bow in her hair) was very close to her mother’s cousin, Fern (at far left, wearing hat and gloves). Fern and my grandmother’s mother (Virginia) were raised by Fern’s mother (Virginia’s maternal aunt) after Virginia’s parents died, one right after the other, […]Read more "‘Neath the Warbling of Bluebirds"

By Carol HinzEditorial Director, Millbrook Press Brian P. Cleary has been publishing books with Lerner Publishing Group for more than a decade. He’s the author of the best-selling Words Are CATegorical series as well as the Math Is CATegorical, Adventures in Memory, and Sounds Like Reading series. The über-productive Cleary has also written the picture […]Read more "The Punctuation Station Q&A with Brian P. Cleary"

By Sara HoffmannSenior Editor What are the children’s books of your generation? You know the ones I mean. The ones that lined the display cases in your elementary school’s library. The ones your teachers read to you when you were growing up. Here’s my (partial) list. See if anything on it brings back memories. Alexander […]Read more "Generation-Defining Books"