The Lerner Blog

What IS a Pandemic?

by Lara Neel, Trade Marketing Manager “Pandemic” is a word that we’re seeing a lot more than usual in the news. Most of us are more familiar with the term “epidemic,” but what’s the difference? In Pandemic: How Climate, the Environment, and Superbugs Increase the Risk, author Connie Goldsmith shares a quick rundown of terms:Read more

Author Interviews

Podcast Interview with Nina Crews

Today on The Lerner Podcast, we talk with Nina Crews, illustrator of A Girl Like Me.Read more

Picture Books + Social and Emotional Learning

by Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books I don’t remember quite when it happened, but at some point last fall, I realized I was hearing the letters “SEL” a lot. And I had some sense that SEL referred to something called “social and emotional learning,” but I couldn’t articulate exactly what […]Read more

Red Menace and the Historical Fiction Sweet Spot

by Amy Fitzgerald, Editorial Director, Carolrhoda Books I love historical fiction. For a long time, though, I half-consciously regarded anything that was in the past but still within “living memory” as a sort of dead zone between history and the present.Read more

Garfield’s Taking STEM by Storm

By Andrea Nelson, Associate Editor, Partnerships and Foreign Product Management STEM, with its four branches—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—has been a mainstay topic at Lerner for decades. Our customers and readers can’t get enough, so it was a no-brainer for us to add more STEM-related books to our Spring 2020 season. But for some students, […]Read more

Where Have All the Bees Gone?

by Shaina Olmanson, Associate Editorial Director for Twenty-First Century Books and Zest Books We may all be busy bees, but it may be time to take a break and read Rebecca Hirsch’s new book, Where Have All the Bees Gone? Why should we care?Read more

Earth Day Books to Read and Discuss

by Lara Neel, Trade Marketing Manager Is the Earth better off without us? If you’re checking your calendar to see that April 22, 2020 is Earth Day, these books might help start or continue conversations about conservation.Read more

A Girl Like Me: Creating Photocollage Illustrations

by Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books I’m endlessly fascinated by how illustrators create artwork for picture books. It’s not so much the technical details that I find compelling; it’s the process of determining what image will best accompany a given word or phrase or paragraph on a page.Read more