Michael Crewdson writes:
Hello, my name is Michael Crewdson and I’m the co-author of Carnivorous Nights–on the Trail of The Tasmanian Tiger. This non-fiction book, which documents a search for an animal that is most likely extinct, was just named by the New York Public Library as a “Book to Remember from 2005.” The NYPL also put it on its “Books for the Teenage” list.
To celebrate the paperback release of Carnivorous, Margaret Mittelbach (my co-author and the daughter of a librarian from the LA system) have launched a Beastly Haiku Contest: http://carnivorousnights.com/haiku/index.htmlWe’re asking people to write haikus about extinct, rare and cryptozoological animals. To also celebrate libraries, we are giving the five runners up to the contest an additional copy of the book for their favorite library.
Anyway, I would love to get the word out about this contest to as many library branches around the country as possible.
And I was wondering whether you could help me to do this. We have also written a flyer about the contest, which we can send to anyone that requests it.cheers,
Michael Crewdson
www.carnivorousnights.comP.S. To add interest to the contest, one of the Beastie Boys has penned a haiku about Sasquatch.
Not haiku, but a prize winner anyway:
Oh, the bustard’s a wonder fowl,
Wiser by far than the owl.
He escapes, you see,
Illegitemacy,
By the grace of a singular vowel.