Lost My Name, the U.K-based personalized book startup that has sold more 700,000 copies of its only title, The Little Girl/Boy That Lost His/Her Name, is adding a second personalized book to its list. LMN will release The Incredible Intergalactic Journey Home by David Cadji-Newby and Petro Serapicos on October 1.
To launch its second title, Lost My Name is partnering with Story Time from Space, a project that organizes astronauts aboard the International Space Station to videotape themselves reading kids’ books to encourage kids to get in involved in science and technology. Parents can go to the LMN website September 17-23 and sign up for a contest and the chance to send their child’s personalized Intergalactic Journey to the space station to be read by an astronaut while orbiting the earth. The Incredible Intergalactic Journey Home will be included among seven titles that will be sent to the ISS on December 3.
The Incredible Intergalactic Journey Home is the story of a child and his robot buddy, out for a trip in their space ship, when their navigation system breaks down and they take off on a long journey through outer space before returning to the child’s earthly neighborhood. Like The Little Girl/Boy That Lost His/Her Name, which is created by LMN technology that builds a customized illustrated book based on each child’s name, the new book uses a variety of technologies to create a customized book about space travel, geography and infinite possibilities.
The book uses open source access to satellite images of the child’s actual neighborhood, NASA images of solar systems, computer generated planets, and much more, all brought together on the fly by LMN to create a personalized picture book for each individual child. LMN titles can only be purchased at its website.
Lost My Name cofounder Asi Sharabi said "We’re forever grateful to Story Time from Space for picking The Incredible Intergalactic Journey Home to be launched, quite literally, from space."
