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Librarian Prep List for May
April showers bring May flowers, so here are some spring-time books for your displays or featured reads. Also, the 14th annual Endangered Species Day is May 17, 2019, so we’ve got some recommendations for that! View →
Lerner Publishing Group Announces Partnership with Science Buddies®
Lerner Publishing Group has partnered with Science Buddies® to create educational and fun series and titles for young readers. View →
Happy Book Birthday: New Picture Books, Middle Grade, and YA
Check out March new releases from Lerner Publishing Group! View →
Friend or Foe?
As Americans contemplate the fictions and facts, and pros and cons of a wall along our southern border, we rethink our national heritage and values. View →
Lerner and Sesame Workshop Announce New Children’s Book Collaboration
MINNEAPOLIS, MN—This fall, grow stronger, smarter, and kinder with new books from Lerner Publishing Group and Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization behind Sesame Street. View →
Introduce Young Readers to the Green Book with Ruth and the Green Book
Last night, Green Book won the 2019 Academy Award for Best Picture at the Oscars. The movie’s title comes from The Negro Motorist Green Book travel guides that were printed to help black people travel safely during the Jim Crow era. View →
Guest Post by Rosanne Parry, author of Last of the Name
We talked to Rosanne Parry, author of Last of the Name, which is scheduled to come out on April 2, 2019, about her process. She was also kind enough to build a very detailed timeline for us, for context. View →
Coding in the Real World
We’re constantly applying the basic principles of coding in everything we do. Let’s take examples of professions and see how people doing them put coding concepts into practice every day. View →
The Story of the Parkland Activists Who Inspired a Nation (And This Editor)
Editing Eric Braun’s Never Again: The Parkland Shooting and the Teen Activists Leading a Movement hit extremely close to home and brought up some difficult feelings. View →
Prompts, Notes, and Sketches for Seventh Grade vs. the Galaxy
Seventh Grade vs. the Galaxy is scheduled to come out on March 5. I talked the designer of the cover, Kimberly Morales, into opening her files to share some notes and sketches! View →
Librarian Prep List for April
April is Poetry Month and April 22 is Earth Day this year, so we’ve made a list to help you get ready for both of them!
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Caldecott Honoree Gordon C. James and Coretta Scott King Award-winner Vaunda Micheaux Nelson Partner Up for Let ‘Er Buck!, a New Picture Book from Millbrook Press
Discover the thrilling story of how African American cowboy George Fletcher won the popular vote at the 1911 Pendleton Round-Up in Let ‘Er Buck! George Fletcher, the People’s Champion, from Carolrhoda Books®, a division of Lerner Publishing Group™. View →
Happy Book Birthday: New Picture Books, Graphic Novels, and YA
Check out February new releases from Lerner Publishing Group! View →
Think Spring with Disney Learning
It certainly doesn’t feel like spring in Minneapolis, but we’re excited to announce the release of our Spring 2019 titles in our partnership with Disney Learning! View →
I Am Farmer: An Illustrator’s Journey
Today’s post comes courtesy of illustrator Elizabeth Zunon, who shares her process for creating the magnificent collage artwork in the new picture book I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon. View →
Lerner Receives a Printz Honor and a Batchelder Honor at ALA Midwinter
This morning at ALA Midwinter in Seattle, Lerner received two ALA awards! I, Claudia by Mary McCoy was awarded a Michael L. Printz Honor, and My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder by Nie Jun picked up a Mildred L. Batchelder Honor. View →
Lerner Publishing Group Wins Printz Honor and Batchelder Honor
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Lerner Publishing Group has received two 2019 American Library Association (ALA) Youth Media Awards. View →
In the News with TFCB: Speaking Up for What Is Fair and Right
Over the years, TFCB has tackled some extraordinarily tough topics for YA readers. Our Spring 2019 list is no exception, with Fake News and Exposing Hate coming out from Mike Miller. View →
Q&A with Flight of a Starling Author Lisa Heathfield
Lisa Heathfield’s latest YA novel, Flight of a Starling, will be available in the US on February 5 and was called a “gem of a novel, one that is sure to be savored” in a starred review from Kirkus Reviews. View →
New Year, New Audisee eBooks with Audio
Every season we work to expand our current collection of Audisee® ebooks with Audio. Read on to see a few of our highlighted titles, and what makes Audisee eBooks with Audio so special. View →
Makerspace Roundup
Today is a red-letter day in the world of STEAM! It’s Ben Franklin Day and Kid Inventors’ Day. Libraries can celebrate these days today—and all year through!—by encouraging kids to try their hand at their own inventing and/or creative projects. View →
Flight of a Starling: Cover Thoughts
Danielle Carnito, Trade Art Director, shares some of the thoughts that went into Flight of a Starling’s cover. View →
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and Gordon C. James Discuss Their New Picture Book, Let ‘Er Buck!
Author and retired children’s librarian Vaunda Micheaux Nelson loves telling stories from forgotten moments in history. View →
#ReadWoke Pin Giveaway
There’s still time to enter for a chance to win! View →