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14 Books You May Have Missed from Lerner Publisher Services Partners
Here’s a roundup of some delightful titles that we don’t want you to miss! View →
Librarians We Love: Craig Dunlap
This installment of Librarians We Love started out with a very interesting question: How can children who are just learning to read choose a book they will want to read? View →
A Chat with Sometimes You Barf Author Nancy Carlson
Everybody barfs. Dogs, cats, chickens, alligators, and even you. It happens to everyone, and sometimes it even happens . . . at school.
In Sometimes You Barf, Nancy Carlson helps young readers through what is often a scary and embarrassing rite of passage. Sometimes you barf. But it’s OK. You get better! View →
Get ready for Valentine’s Day and Presidents’ Day with our Librarian Prep List!
Our Librarian Prep List for Black History Month came out in November, so this month, let’s focus on Valentine’s Day (February 14, 2020) and Presidents’ Day (February 17, 2020). View →
Ella McQueen, Kickball Queen: Q&A with Beth Mills
Editorial Director Carol Hinz lets us all take a peek at how Beth Mills’ Ella McQueen, Kickball Queen came to be. View →
Podcast Interview with Beth Mills
Today on The Lerner Podcast we talk to Beth Mills, creator of Ella McKeen, Kickball Queen. View →
“Who Needs A Story Like This?” An Editor’s Take on Fugly by Claire Waller
Editorial Director Amy Fitzgerald shares how she realized she needed this story…and suspected that many teen readers did too. View →
Librarians We Love: Tamara Cox
Tamara Cox is a high school librarian at Wren High School in South Carolina. She was nominated to be a Librarian We Love through our web form. We’re very excited to share some details about her advocacy! View →
It’s Raining STEM!
New STEM books for Spring 2020 include Space in Action: Augmented Reality, Discover Your Senses, Sports Coding Concepts, Celebrating Failure, and Cutting-Edge STEM series! View →
Editor’s Notes on Topside
Let the art do the talking. That’s usually sound advice for a graphic novel creator—embrace the visual nature of the form. View →
Cicely Lewis, Kao Kalia Yang, Melanie Gillman, and NoNieqa Ramos on #ReadWoke, #OwnVoices and Diversifying Library Collections
In mid-October, Lerner and SLJ hosted an enlightening #ReadWoke webinar with librarian, SLJ columnist, and #ReadWoke founder Cicely Lewis and three #OwnVoices authors, Kao Kalia Yang, Melanie Gillman, and NoNieqa Ramos. In this post, they answer more questions about #ReadWoke, #OwnVoices, and diversifying library collections. View →
Podcast List from You Do You: Figuring Out Your Body, Dating, and Sexuality and Websites from Body 2.0 The Engineering Revolution in Medicine
We published two very different nonfiction titles earlier this month. They both feature the human body, but that’s about where the similarities end! View →
Librarian Prep List for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Black History Month
Book ideas for Martin Luther King Jr. Day on January 20, 2020, and Black History Month in February. View →
Get Your Summer Reading in Shape with Lerner's Summer Reading Webinars
Mark your calendar for our two upcoming summer reading webinars, featuring the iREAD® and Collaborative Summer Library Program™ summer reading themes. View →
Happy Book Birthday! New YA from Lerner
Check out November new releases from Lerner Publishing Group! View →
A Map into the World: The Story Behind the Book
Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books, shares a fun story about A Map into the World by Kao Kalia Yang. View →
Lerner and the Center for Cyber Safety and Education Collaborate with Garfield®
Help kids make a safer cyber world with the new Garfield’s ® Guide to Digital Citizenship series, coming January 2020 from Lerner Publishing Group. View →
Audiobooks Directly from Lerner!
Here’s how you can listen to your favorite Lerner titles as multi-user audiobooks through Lerner Bookshelf on the web, and on your mobile devices using our Lerner Digital eReader apps for iOS and Android. View →
Art Director Notes: A Map into the World
Associate Art Director Emily Harris shares some notes on finding the perfect cover illustrator for Kao Kalia Yang’s A Map into the World. View →
Diversity, Audits, and Choosing Books
We are excited to see more and more people becoming educated, excited, and involved in creating collections of books that help encourage all students to read books that challenge social norms and build understanding of disenfranchised groups. View →
Lerner Publisher Services Announces New Distribution Agreement with Ruby Tuesday Books
Lerner Publisher Services, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, today announced a new partnership with Ruby Tuesday Books to be their exclusive distributor in the U.S. and Canada beginning November 1, 2019. View →
Podcast Interview with Nicole Valentine
In this episode of The Lerner Podcast, listen in on a conversation between author Nicole Valentine and her editor, Amy Fitzgerald. View →
Q&A with Kathy Belge and Marke Bieschke, the authors of Queer, 2nd Edition: The Ultimate LGBTQ Guide for Teens
Mark Bieschke and Kathy Belge are the authors of Queer, 2nd Edition: The Ultimate LGBTQ Guide for Teens. We asked them about the inspiration behind their book, coming out, how things have changed since they were teens, and how best to encourage and help queer teens today. View →
Video: Author Kao Kalia Yang Discusses A Map into the World
Kao Kalia Yang shares some of the history of Hmong story cloths, how A Map into the World was inspired by a true story, and a little more background of both Hmong and her personal history. View →