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Fabiana Silva, a student at the New College of Florida, stopped by
to read The Lost Seal at the LTER Network booth during the 91st ESA
meeting August 6-11, 2006, in Memphis, TN.
Photo: McOwiti O. Thomas
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The Lost Seal, the second book in the LTER Children’s Book series, is
proving quite a hit with children and adults all over the world. While the
first book, My Water Comes From The Mountains, and The
Lost Seal have both
received positive reviews and drawn a lot of attention to LTER, the latter
book has been particularly well received.
The Lost Seal was recently the subject of a news item that also featured
an interview with the author, Diane McKnight, by a CBS News affiliate in Denver,
CO (http://cbs4denver.com/video/?id=25059).
Earlier, Colorado University issued a press release on The
Lost Seal (http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/
2006/379.html),
which was picked up by the mass media and resulted in several invitations to
the author for interviews by a mid-day TV news program, Colorado and Company,
and Colorado public radio.
The popularity of the two books were also evident during the 2006 Ecological
Society of America meeting in Memphis, TN, and at the SACNAS (Society for the
Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science) annual conference
in Tampa, FL, where many people expressed interest in purchasing copies. The
huge interest prompted Marshall White, the LTER Network Office’s Senior
Web Designer, set up a page listing of LTER publications, including the children’s
books, on Amazon that allowed people to browse and even order or purchase the
books.
To guide other colleagues interested in writing children’s books based
on LTER work, Diane and her team have also produced a DVD titled “Perspectives
for Planning the Schoolyard Book Series of NSF’s Long Term Ecological
Research Network.”
For more information about the Children’s Book Series, please contact
Diane McKnight (diane.mcknight@colorado.edu). You may also visit the Lost Seal
website at www.mcmlter.org/lostseal/.
By McOwiti O. Thomas, LNO |
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