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!
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By Megan Ciskowski, Associate Publicist
Check out October new releases from Lerner Publishing Group!
Read MoreToday 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
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, and I believe it’s likewise true for teachers and students.
Authors regularly are advised to read within their genre, which is great advice, but I became curious about what else the authors I work with enjoy reading. I got a wonderful range of responses, and I’ll be sharing them in groups of three over the next few weeks. Read More
Author Chris Barton introduces his new nonfiction picture book Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion. Read More