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3 Key Components of Middle-Grade Novels

By Amy Fitzgerald, Senior Editor I’ve been in a flurry of middle-grade manuscript acquisitions lately, which means I’ve been reading a lot of middle-grade submissions and buying some of my favorites. You’ll see them hitting shelves in a year or two, after the Carolrhoda book-making process has worked its magic. Maybe you’re wondering how I decide […]Read more

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Happy Book Birthday! New Picture Books, YA, and Graphic Novels

Check out today’s new releases from Lerner!Read more

How to Plan a Great Book Launch

Guest post by C. M. Surrisi, author of A Side of Sabotage Let’s talk about how to plan a great book launch. I’ve had three in a little more than two years, and I’ve found some elements of a book launch party to be consistent while others changed or evolved. Here are the books I […]Read more

Celebrate National Poultry Day with I Got a Chicken for My Birthday

By Kayla Hechsel, Editor What would you do if your grandma gave you a chicken for your birthday? Well, that’s exactly what the main character in Laura Gehl’s hilarious picture book, I Got a Chicken for My Birthday, has to figure out. She quickly learns that her chicken isn’t satisfied with eating chicken feed and […]Read more

Writing, Editing, and Sharing Poetry from Can I Touch Your Hair?

By Libby Stille, Associate Publicist In January of 2015, editor Carol Hinz had an idea for a children’s poetry picture book that discussed race in a way that would be accessible to middle-grade audiences. She reached out to poet and children’s author Irene Latham and asked her to suggest a partner for the project. Irene […]Read more

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Happy Book Birthday! New Picture Books, YA, and Graphic Novels

Check out today’s new releases from Lerner!Read more

Poetry, Race, and Art: A Conversation with Selina Alko, Sean Qualls, and Nina Crews

By Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books While working on the books Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship and Seeing into Tomorrow: Poems by Richard Wright, I couldn’t help noticing commonalities between the two. Both are volumes of poetry and both explore race and identity. Yet the books differ […]Read more

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

Take a look at new Lerner books to read this February.Read more

Can I Touch Your Hair? Webcast + Q&A with Selina Alko, Charles Waters, and Irene Latham

Last week, three of the four creators of Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship took part in a special Horn Book live webcast. Charles Waters, Irene Latham, and Selina Alko discussed how their new picture book came to be with The Horn Book‘s Roger Sutton. You can listen to the webcast here. They also answered […]Read more

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