Picture Pages: Bring the Antioch Dunes to Life

Life Cycle of the Lange’s Metalmark Butterfly (coloring page – click to download)

Coinciding neatly with the recent release of my new children’s book, Sardis and Stamm, illustrator Nicole Wong was kind enough to adapt two of the beautiful illustrations from our book into coloring pages for children.

These two activity pages feature the life cycle of the Lange’s metalmark butterfly and a selection of plants, insects, and other wildlife typical of the Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge. Click each image (above/below) to download a .pdf coloring page.

Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge (coloring page – click to download)

Sardis and Stamm – Book Release and Dune Tour

With my new children’s book – Sardis and Stamm – about to arrive hot off the press in the next week or so, we’re already planning the book’s debut with a tour of the dunes and an opportunity to attend a book reading, followed by a book signing event by myself and illustrator Nicole Wong, at the East Bay Regional Park District’s Big Break Visitor Center at the Delta (Big Break Regional Shoreline) on January 11, 2014.

If you aren’t already familiar with the project, you can read more about it here on the pages of (bio)accumulation, or visit the project website here.

Here’s the announcement for the upcoming book release and dune tour:

I hope to see you there!