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Librarian Prep List for Jewish American Heritage Month

by Lara Neel, Trade Marketing Manager May is Jewish American Heritage Month! Here’s a list of book display ideas or selections for your readers advisory group.Read more

All of a Sudden and Forever

by Danielle Carnito, Trade Art Director It isn’t every book where the creators and the publishing team all visit the site of a book’s events. It isn’t every book where you happen to check your social media on a holiday weekend and notice pictures the illustrator is posting from her trip to the site.Read more

Collections

Happy Book Birthday: New Picture Books, Middle Grade and YA

Check out March new releases from Lerner Publishing Group!Read more

New Digital Formats Deliver Your Favorites in Science, Sports, and Social Studies

by Kate Campbell, Digital Products Coordinator Every season we work hard to bring you quality Lerner content in every standard format. From print to digital and beyond, we’re looking to reach readers of every skill level, ability, and interest. Let’s take a look at what’s now on offer in Audisee ebook with audio and audiobook […]Read more

Elizabeth Wein and Amber Lough on Women Soldiers In World Wars I and II

by Amy Fitzgerald, Editorial Director, Carolrhoda Books Young adult authors Elizabeth Wein and Amber Lough are here to talk to you about their research trip to Russia and about the role of women soldiers in World War I and II. Read more

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