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It's been awhile since we talked about Sooper Yooper here at U.P. Second Wave, but it's gaining more attention across the Midwest for the environmental message the children's book sends to school children. In fact, the author spoke Monday at Aspen Ridge Elementary in Ishpeming here in the U.P.

Here's a write-up from an Indiana publication on the book and its origins.

Excerpt: Mark Newman and his best friend Mark Heckman were used to putting pen to paper and brush to canvas for a cause.

"Mark and I had done a lot of environmental billboards and always had in the back of our minds that we wanted to do a kids' book, a picture book," Newman says. "It only made sense to do something around the Great Lakes."

The Michigan men started plotting their plans more than five years ago and the result was Sooper Yooper, a children's book about Billy Cooper, an ex-Navy SEAL and environmental superhero who lives in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and battles invasive species to protect the Great Lakes along with his dog, Mighty Mac.

To read more, see the full article here.

Source: Lake Michigan Shore Magazine