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A Common Thread Between the Guthrie Theater and Lerner
If you visit the office spaces at Lerner, you might notice that we have a few quilts hanging up on our walls. View →
Saying a Fond Farewell
After twenty seven years with Lerner Publishing Group, Domenica Di Piazza bids us adieu as she retires. View →
Resources for No More Excuses: Dismantling Rape Culture + Podcast Interview
For the first episode of The Lerner Podcast, we interviewed Amber J. Keyser, author of No More Excuses: Dismantling Rape Culture, about what teachers, librarians, and everyone else can do to dismantle rape culture. View →
Middle-Grade Novel Last of the Name Follows Irish Immigrants
Follow the journey of an Irish brother and sister who immigrate to New York City in Last of the Name, a middle-grade novel available this spring from Carolrhoda Books®, a division of Lerner Publishing Group™. View →
Librarian Prep List for June
To help you get ready for LGBTQIA+ Pride Month, we’ve put together a list of books that include characters and nonfiction accounts of people along the LGBTQIA+ spectrum. View →
Lerner and Garfield® Announce New Children’s Book Partnership
This fall, explore the art of comics and STEM breakthroughs with new books from Lerner Publishing Group and Garfield®. View →
Happy Book Birthday: New Picture Books, Middle Grade, and Graphic Novels
Check out April new releases from Lerner Publishing Group! View →
Gravity's Pull
MariNaomi Introduces book two in Her Life on Earth YA graphic novel series. View →
Flower Talk Q&A with Author Sara Levine
Author Sara Levine was kind enough to answer a few questions about how this book came to be—and how she hopes it will be used. View →
Interview with Castle of Lies Author Kiersi Burkhart
Where did the idea for this epic tale start? View →
Books for Africa
Kar-Ben Publisher Joni Sussman shares some fun details about Lerner Publishing Group book donations and Books for Africa. View →
Take Learning Off the Page with Science Buddies
Our newest digital feature, Page Plus, launched last Fall, and we expanded it further this Spring, including a partnership with Science Buddies. View →
One Step Forward…
Domenica Di Piazza shares some of the sources of ideas for her timely titles. View →
YA Novel The Stand-In Becomes the Netflix Film The Perfect Date
The Stand-In, written by Steve Bloom and published by Carolrhoda Lab®, is coming to Netflix on April 12, 2019, as The Perfect Date. View →
Inventive New Young Adult Novel The Manic Pixie Dream Boy Improvement Project Turns Tropes Upside-Down
MINNEAPOLIS, MN—Explore the tropes that make young adult novels tick in The Manic Pixie Dream Boy Improvement Project, coming this spring from Carolrhoda Lab®, an imprint of Carolrhoda Books®, a division of Lerner Publishing Group™. View →
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 →