Press Room
Lerner Digital Launches Page Plus Feature This Fall
Our newest digital feature, Page Plus, launched this season. It includes 15 new titles to enjoy and explore. But what does Page Plus even mean? View →
Mary Amato’s Inspiration for Open Mic Night at Westminster Cemetery
Today YA author Mary Amato shares her inspiration for Open Mic Night at Westminster Cemetery. View →
Carol's 5-Year-Old Asks Calef Brown Questions about The Ghostly Carousel
As I mentioned in yesterday’s interview on the blog, my 5-year-old is a bit obsessed with Calef Brown’s new poetry collection, The Ghostly Carousel: Delightfully Frightful Poems. View →
Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books Editorial Director Carol Hinz Named a 2018 Publishers Weekly Star Watch Honoree
Lerner Publishing Group is pleased to announce that Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books Editorial Director Carol Hinz has been named a 2018 Publishers Weekly (PW) Star Watch honoree. View →
Meet PW Star Watch Honoree Carol Hinz
Meet Editorial Director Carol Hinz, one of Publishers Weekly‘s 2018 Star Watch Honorees! Carol’s list includes National Book Award Longlist selection Sachiko, Sibert Honoree Sea Otter Heroes, and Orbis Pictus Honoree Dazzle Ships. View →
Happy Book Birthday: New Picture Books, Nonfiction, and YA
Check out September 1 new releases from Lerner Publishing Group! View →
Of Fall and Frankenstein
Today is Frankenstein Day! August 30 was Mary Shelley‘s birthday in 1797, so it has become the day to unofficially celebrate her most famous character.
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Meet A Lerner: Lara Neel
Meet Lara Neel, Lerner’s Trade Marketing Manager! View →
Shark Talk
It’s really “Talking about Sharks,” because that’s exactly what science writer Karen Romano Young will be doing tomorrow on New England Public Radio’s Back-to-School Book Series program! View →
Meet The Magic of Melwick Orchard Author Rebecca Caprara
Rebecca Caprara’s debut middle-grade novel, The Magic of Melwick Orchard, centers on 12-year-old Isa, whose family fractures after her little sister Junie is diagnosed with cancer. View →
Open Mic Night: Cover Design Auditions
It is generally creative law that a best idea is either your very first idea or your very last idea, the one that you almost didn’t pursue. View →
Nevertheless, They Persisted
If you’re interested in political resistance, you may want to pick up our brand-new Alternator BooksTM series, Movements That Matter, along with a few other titles. View →
How to Get the Most Out of Interactive Books
Every season, there are more ways to enjoy and learn from Lerner books! In the Digital Department, we create enhanced eBooks like Interactive Books. Let’s take a walk through one of our newest titles, Discover Cryobiology, and look at each aspect of it. View →
New Graphic Novel Series Features a Spud Superhero
MINNEAPOLIS, MN—New from Graphic Universe™, a division of Lerner Publishing Group: it’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Super Potato to the rescue! Spanish author-illustrator Artur Laperla’s humorous Super Potato series for young readers features a spud like no other: Super Potato can fly, fight, make potato jokes, and save the world all at once. View →
Gooooooooaaaaaaaal!!!
Have you been watching women’s soccer’s 2018 Tournament of Nations? Who will kick the winning goal tonight? Australia? Brazil? Or our very own US team? View →
Radiolab, Obama, and an Out-of-This World Picture Book: Guest Post by David Zeltser + Book Trailer Reveal
Today we welcome author David Zeltser to discuss what inspired him to write his new picture book, The Universe Ate My Homework. Plus, watch the book trailer created by illustrator Ayesha L. Rubio and narrated by Radiolab‘s Robert Krulwich! View →
August New Releases
Check out today’s new releases from Lerner Publishing Group! View →
Remembering Biologist Lincoln Brower, Advocate for the Monarch Butterfly
Author Rebecca E. Hirsch remembers Dr. Lincoln Brower, an influential biologist who devoted his life to the study and conservation of monarch butterflies. Hirsch talked with Dr. Brower while researching The Monarchs Are Missing: A Butterfly Mystery. View →
Flying Your Way this August: The Epic Origin of Super Potato
The history of superhero comics is full of stories that tease—or even appear to implement—drastic changes to a character’s status quo. What happens when the change sticks? View →
6 Books You May Have Missed from Lerner Publisher Services Partners
It’s impossible for us to choose the “best” book for any reader, but it’s always fun to check out new books. Here’s a short list of some that you may want to look at more closely. View →
3 Right Things that Look Wrong
One thing about editing is that, no matter how many books you’ve edited, you still find yourself consulting the dictionary All. The. Time. throughout your workday to make sure that you’re spelling certain words correctly. View →
On (Some) Girl Stereotypes in Picture Books
I’m currently in the midst of organizing a presentation about “keeping your eyes open” when creating illustrations for kids’ books. So I’m revisiting various projects, noting times when we have specifically directed art to avoid certain stereotypical representations. View →
3 Great Tips for Sharing Seeing into Tomorrow: Haiku by Richard Wright
A collection of haiku poetry might sound a bit sophisticated for the youngest readers, but each time I have read the book with this age group, they’ve been completely engaged. View →
“This Award Has Undone Me”: Patricia Newman’s Sibert Honor Speech
Today we share the speech author Patricia Newman gave last month at the Sibert Committee lunch at ALA. She received the Sibert Honor for Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem. View →