Press Room
How to Be a Difficult Bitch: Empowering YA Readers
Being a powerhouse is a choice, a lifestyle, a code of ethics. It takes work, a thick skin, and perseverance. In How to Be a Difficult Bitch: Claim Your Power, Ditch the Haters, and Feel Good Doing It, young adults learn the basics of being a Difficult Bitch, from school to friends to body to life. View →
Attention Hijacked: An Interview with Author Erica B. Marcus
Technology is constantly at our fingertips, and sometimes we don’t realize how too much screen time negatively impacts our health. Attention Hijacked: Using Mindfulness to Reclaim Your Brain from Tech explores exactly how technology affects consumers, dispels misinformation, and helps readers make personal usage decisions. View →
Spring Titles from Lerner Publisher Services
Here are the highlights from our publishing partners’ Spring 2022 lists! From picture books to graphic novels, nonfiction about perennial favorite topics like space and dinosaurs, diverse eReadalongs, board books, and high-low fiction, there’s something for everyone from our favorite publishers. View →
The Art of Magic: An Interview with Author Hannah Voskuil
When ZuZu and Andrew discover a set of enchanted art supplies that allow them to create magical creatures, they find themselves drawn into a supernatural struggle for control of their town. Perfect for imaginative young readers, The Art of Magic: A Novel features a unique magic system set in the real world, with powers explicitly rooted in creativity. View →
Lerner Publishing Group and Thomson Reuters Team Up to Lift Diverse Voices in Children’s Book Publishing
Lerner Publishing Group has teamed with Thomson Reuters to raise the voices of diverse authors in children’s book publishing. The new publishing program will launch with one young adult nonfiction book in spring 2023 and will continue through spring 2024 with at least 4 additional young adult nonfiction books written by debut and emerging authors, artists, and creators of color. View →
Happy Book Birthday: New Middle-Grade, Graphic Novels, and Nonfiction
By Megan Ciskowski, Associate Publicist Happy Book Birthday to May new releases from Lerner Publishing Group! Middle Grade The Art of Magic: A Novel by Hannah Voskuil When ZuZu and Andrew discover a set of enchanted art supplies that allow them to create magical creatures, they find themselves drawn into a supernatural struggle for control […] The post Happy Book Birthday: New Middle-Grade, Graphic Novels, and Nonfiction appeared first on The Lerner Blog. View →
Out of Darkness Named One of the Most Challenged Books of 2021
On April 4, during National Library Week, ALA released a list of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2021. The YA novel Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez ranked at #4. Previously on the Lerner blog, Ashley contributed a guest post ahead of Banned Books Week titled “The Right to Read.” In the […] The post Out of Darkness Named One of the Most Challenged Books of 2021 appeared first on The Lerner Blog. View →
Looking at Little Predators: Guest Post from Author Sneed B. Collard III
by Sneed B. Collard III, author of Little Killers: The Ferocious Lives of Puny Predators I first became fascinated by tiny predators as a biology student at UC Berkeley. I’d been around animals all my life, but taking invertebrate zoology and poking around tidepools made me firmly realize that life on Earth runs on “small” […] The post Looking at Little Predators: Guest Post from Author Sneed B. Collard III appeared first on The Lerner Blog. View →
Spotlight On Ukrainian Illustrators
April 15, 2022 marked 50 days of war in Ukraine. In that time, people around the globe have turned their attention and support to the citizens of Ukraine and Ukrainian populations elsewhere in the world. Today we’d like to feature the work of two Ukrainian illustrators of Lerner and Kar-Ben Publishing books: Sofia Moore and […] The post Spotlight On Ukrainian Illustrators appeared first on The Lerner Blog. View →
Dungeons, Dragons, Monsters, & Magic: Exit Interview with the Creators of A House Divided
A House Divided, a series of fantasy graphic novels full of humor and intrigue, is the result of a longstanding collaboration between writer Haiko Hörnig and artist Marius Pawlitza. The project has spanned years of active creation and has origins years before that work started, in the duo’s longtime friendship. To celebrate the release of […] The post Dungeons, Dragons, Monsters, & Magic: Exit Interview with the Creators of A House Divided appeared first on The Lerner Blog. View →
Gold Mountain: An Interview with Author Betty G. Yee
Debut author Betty G. Yee tells a suspenseful, immersive depiction of a pivotal point in US history in Gold Mountain. In the 1860s, Tam Ling Fan needs money to help her father. Disguised as a boy, she travels from China to America to take a dangerous job as a laborer on the Transcontinental Railroad. Read on […] The post Gold Mountain: An Interview with Author Betty G. Yee appeared first on The Lerner Blog. View →
Happy 90th Birthday, Harry Lerner!
Cheers to 90 years! Lerner Publishing Group is honored to celebrate Founder and Chairman Harry Lerner’s 90th birthday. Family and friends gathered together at a party to toast Harry and honor his legacy and the impact he has made on the children’s book publishing industry. Check out photos from the celebration below! Lerner Books’ first […] The post Happy 90th Birthday, Harry Lerner! appeared first on The Lerner Blog. View →
Gender Inequality in Sports: Guest Post from Author Kirstin Cronn-Mills
I’m not an athlete. No matter how much I enjoy being active, I’m too clumsy for sports. Too uninterested in competition. But I raised an athlete, and we’re a family who enjoys watching sports of all kinds. An intense amount of dedication and determination goes along with athletic achievement. I know about the time, money, […] The post Gender Inequality in Sports: Guest Post from Author Kirstin Cronn-Mills appeared first on The Lerner Blog. View →
10 at 10: An Author Interview with Carlyn Beccia
Audrey Hepburn, Roberto Clemente, Albert Einstein—kids know the names, but do they know what some of history’s most famous figures were like at the age of ten? In 10 at 10: The Surprising Childhoods of Ten Remarkable People Carlyn Beccia presents ten brief and beautifully illustrated biographies to give young readers a fresh look at […] The post 10 at 10: An Author Interview with Carlyn Beccia appeared first on The Lerner Blog. View →
Behind The Button Box: A Time-Travelling, Cross-Cultural Adventure
The Button Box is a new middle-grade novel about cousins, one Jewish and one Muslim, who travel back in time to ancient Morocco. Below, co-authors Bridget Hodder and Fawzia Gilani-Williams discuss their hopes for the book, what inspired them, and more. Where did you get the inspiration for The Button Box? BH: It began with […] The post Behind The Button Box: A Time-Travelling, Cross-Cultural Adventure appeared first on The Lerner Blog. View →
Lerner Publishing Group Celebrates Founder and Chairman Harry Lerner’s 90th Birthday
Cheers to 90 years! Lerner Publishing Group is honored to celebrate Founder and Chairman Harry Lerner’s 90th birthday. Family and friends gathered together at a party to toast Harry and honor his legacy and the impact he has made on the children’s book publishing industry.
View →
Essential Books for Earth Day and Beyond
April 22 is Earth Day, and we’re preparing for the occasion by collecting books that cover topics like the environment, animals and conservation, climate change, and more. Whether you’re planning an Earth Day celebration in your classroom or library or looking for books to support environmental education all year round, we’ve got celebrated picks for every grade K-12. View →
Take Control and Feel Good Doing It with the New YA Nonfiction Book How to Be a Difficult Bitch
Coming this April from Zest Books™, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group™, How to Be a Difficult Bitch: Claim Your Power, Ditch the Haters, and Feel Good Doing It empowers teens to love and stand up for themselves and those around them. View →
The Deep Blue Between: Author Interview with Ayesha Harruna Attah
The Deep Blue Between begins in 1890s West Africa when twin sisters Hassana and Husseina are torn apart by violence. After their separation, each girl finds freedom and new opportunities. But despite their very different lives and choices, the sisters remain linked by their dreams, and slowly they are drawn back together. View →
We Belong: An Interview with Author Laura Purdie Salas
Explore and celebrate who you are and who others are too! The new picture book We Belong by Laura Purdie Salas and illustrated by Carlos Vélez Aquilera invites others to notice the diversity of our world and affirm that we all belong, just as we are. View →
Explore the Value of Allyship with Author and Actor Duoa Muoa in His New Picture Book Today Is Different
In Today Is Different, coming this spring from Carolrhoda Books®, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group™, debut author Duoa Muoa and debut illustrator Kim Holt tell the story of two girls standing together with their communities to protest systemic racism and injustice. This gentle, exploratory title shows young readers the importance and necessity for solidarity and understanding. View →
Rena Glickman Kicked Like a Girl. And She Always Won.
March is Women’s History Month, but if you’re not part of the judo world you may never have heard of “the mother of women’s judo,” Rena “Rusty” Glickman Kanokogi. Glickman’s story is told in the upcoming picture book Rena Glickman, Queen of Judo. Read on to for a fascinating overview of her story and to take a peek inside the book. View →
Freshly Picked Poetry for National Poetry Month
As publishers, we know how easy it is to get lost in the sea of narrative fiction, informational nonfiction, and engaging novels. We often neglect to take the time to sit down and enjoy some of the finer forms of literature. However, April is National Poetry Month and we intend to give you the choice to do just that, with a well-rounded, highly diverse list of poetry and poetry-related titles. From old classics to new hits, you can find a poem for every age in this carefully handpicked collection! View →
Recycling Gets Creative in New Nonfiction Book Washed Ashore
In Washed Ashore: Making Art from Ocean Plastic, a new book from author and photographer Kelly Crull and published by Millbrook Press™, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group™, biology meets art to showcase fourteen stunning animal sculptures created completely from ocean trash. View →