Press Room
Help at Home, 3/18/20
As lifelong learners, we know we don’t know everything. We are planning on using this space to share online resources that could help keep everyone learning and engaged as we navigate this unprecedented time.
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The Design Behind Follow Those Zebras (and Online Zoo Visits)
We at Lerner recognize that the spread of COVID-19 and the need to practice social distancing during this time have made many routines, such as visiting a zoo or even going to school, unsafe. We plan on continuing to use this space to talk about books, but also share online resources that could help keep everyone learning and engaged. View →
A Spark of Inspiration: How Flash and Gleam Came to Be
For those who are stuck at home, I wanted to try to shed a little light on your day with this new book. I enjoy editing picture books because each one is different. And each one also comes about in a unique way, which makes it fun to ask, “Where did the idea for this book come from?” View →
If We Were Gone: Students Lead the Way
John Coy and Natalie Capannelli’s new picture book, If We Were Gone: Imagining the World without People, is not your average picture book. In a review, Publishers Weekly called it a “disturbingly beautiful dystopian meditation.” When John, Natalie, and those of us at Lerner were working on the book, we certainly didn’t imagine that it would be released just as a global pandemic was spreading. View →
Lerner Digital Can Help You Plan for and Respond to School Closures
School districts facing closures due to coronavirus or other epidemics may have to look for ways to help their students continue to learn even during a relatively lengthy time away from their school building. Lerner Digital has elearning resources that could help. View →
Jeff Fleischer on Electability, Voter Suppression, Electronic Voting, and More
To celebrate the March release of the Zest Books YA nonfiction title Votes of Confidence, 2nd Edition: A Young Person’s Guide to American Elections, Ashley Kuehl asked Jeff Fleischer to explain some terms and trends we’re seeing in the news. View →
Tracking Pythons: Science Up Close
For her new middle-grade nonfiction book, Kate Messner made several trips to Florida and shadowed scientists as they worked. This enabled her to include lots of great sensory details as well as photos and videos of the scenes she describes. View →
Librarian Prep List for Jewish American Heritage Month
May is Jewish American Heritage Month! Here’s a list of book display ideas or selections for your readers advisory group. View →
All of a Sudden and Forever
Trade Art Director Danielle Carnito shares some details of illustrator Nicole Xu’s visit to better understand the site of the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. In fact, for the new nonfiction picture book, the author, illustrator, art director, and editor all visited the memorial, the museum, and the site. View →
Happy Book Birthday: New Picture Books, Middle Grade and YA
Check out March new releases from Lerner Publishing Group! View →
New Digital Formats Deliver Your Favorites in Science, Sports, and Social Studies
From print to digital and beyond, we’re working to reach readers of every skill level, ability, and interest. Let’s take a look at what’s now on offer in Audisee ebook with audio and audiobook formats. View →
Elizabeth Wein and Amber Lough on Women Soldiers In World Wars I and II
Young adult authors Elizabeth Wein and Amber Lough are here to talk to you about their research trip to Russia and about the role of women soldiers in World War I and II. View →
What IS a Pandemic?
Have you been asked about the possibility of a coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic? We pulled together some resources to help you talk to kids, reduce the risk of transmission, and brush up on a little vocab. View →
Podcast Interview with Nina Crews
Today on The Lerner Podcast, we talk with Nina Crews, illustrator of A Girl Like Me, about how the book came to be, her hopes for young readers to continue making the world a better place, and artists whose children’s books she loves. View →
Picture Books + Social and Emotional Learning
CASEL concisely defines social and emotional learning as, “the process through which children and adults understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.” View →
Red Menace and the Historical Fiction Sweet Spot
Amy Fitzgerald, the Editorial Director of Carolrhoda Books, shares that she looks “for historical fiction that resonates with the present on more than a fashion level — making me feel simultaneously transported to foreign territory and more deeply connected to the problems, questions, and feelings of my own time.” View →
Garfield’s Taking STEM by Storm
STEM, with its four branches—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—has been a mainstay topic at Lerner for decades. Our customers and readers can’t get enough, so it was a no-brainer for us to add more STEM-related books to our Spring 2020 season. With an irreverent, orange cat. And a few of his friends. View →
Where Have All the Bees Gone?
We may all be busy bees, but it may be time to take a break and read Rebecca Hirsch’s new book, Where Have All the Bees Gone? Why should we care? View →
Fight Alongside the Women's Battalion of Death in New YA Novel Open Fire by Amber Lough
MINNEAPOLIS, MN— Follow a young recruit of the Women’s Battalion of Death in Open Fire, coming this spring from Carolrhoda Lab®, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group™. Author Amber Lough sheds light on a pivotal moment in Russian history in this fast-paced historical YA novel. View →
Earth Day Books to Read and Discuss
Is the Earth better off without us? If you’re checking your calendar and see that April 22, 2020 is Earth Day, these books might help start or continue conversations about conservation. View →
A Girl Like Me: Creating Photocollage Illustrations
In today’s blog post, Carol Hinz shares some of the process behind the wonderful photocollage illustrations Nina Crews created for A Girl Like Me. View →
Happy Book Birthday: New Picture Books, Middle Grade and YA
Check out February new releases from Lerner Publishing Group! View →
Middle-Grade Novel Red Menace by Lois Ruby Features Baseball, Bar Mitzvahs, and the FBI
Explore questions of patriotic dissent and national security during the era of the Red Scare through the eyes of a kid growing up in Kansas in Red Menace, coming this spring from Carolrhoda Books®, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group™. View →
Author Karen Cherro Quiñones on Theodosia Burr: Teen Eyewitness to the Founding of the New Nation
Theodosia Burr is the daughter of Aaron Burr, a former vice-president, lawyer, colonel, and controversial killer of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. View →