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Happy Book Birthday: New Picture books, Middle Grade, YA, GRAPHIC NOVELS, and Nonfiction

By Megan Ciskowski, Associate Publicist Check out October new releases from Lerner Publishing Group!Read more

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

by Libby Stille, Publicist Check out February new releases from Lerner Publishing Group!Read more

Author Chris Barton on All of a Sudden and Forever and Healing After Tragedy

Today we’re sharing a guest post by Chris Barton, author of All of a Sudden and Forever: Help and Healing after the Oklahoma City Bombing, illustrated by Nicole Xu and available February 4, 2020.Read more

Reading Like a Writer: What Authors Read for Inspiration [Part One]

By Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books I’ve been thinking lately about the importance of reading in shaping a person’s writing skills. Before we can write well, we first have to see good writing and then absorb it through a mysterious osmosis-like process. This is certainly true for authors and editors, […]Read more

Author Chris Barton on Dazzle Ships and Creative Problem Solving

Author Chris Barton introduces his new nonfiction picture book Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion.Read more

5 Questions for Dazzle Ships Illustrator Victo Ngai

Recently back from Helsinki, Finland, where she attended the Hugo Awards ceremony as a finalist in the “Best Professional Artist” category, Victo Ngai found the time to answer a few questions about Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion, which comes out on September 1.Read more

The Element of Surprise in Nonfiction Picture Books

By Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press What makes a kid (or an adult) pick up a nonfiction picture book? What compels them to keep reading? I can think of a few different answers to these questions, but today I’d like to focus on the element of surprise. Why? Because surprises help make books fun!Read more

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