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Magazine Contributors to Share Fun Facts about Wildlife in Winter
RALEIGH, N.C. (Feb. 4, 2008) – Two longtime contributors to Wildlife in North Carolina magazine will visit the Centennial Campus Center for Wildlife Education for a special family event on Saturday, Feb. 23.
Consie Powell and Anne Runyon will talk about how animals survive winter, sign copies of their books and spend time with young people in attendance, beginning at 10:30 a.m. Both are frequent contributors to North Carolina WILD Notebook, the young readers’ monthly feature in Wildlife in North Carolina magazine. Powell is an illustrator, writer, and editor whose recent book, “The First Day of Winter,” takes young readers on an outdoors journey of discovery and fun. “I love to muck around in nature's lovely untidy places, and I try to convey my fascination with the natural world through my art and writing,” Powell says of her creative endeavors.
Runyon is an illustrator, paper sculptor and writer whose new children’s book “The Sheltering Cedar” is about a sturdy tree that protects small animals during a storm on Christmas Eve. “Early one sunny winter morning, I watched a small flock of red birds burst out of a cedar tree growing in our yard on Ocracoke Island,” Runyon says. “My mother observed that they roosted there every night. This beautiful image, and my mother's words, slowly developed into ‘The Sheltering Cedar’.” The Centennial Campus Center for Wildlife Education is located at 1751 Varsity Drive, Raleigh in the headquarters of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission on the Centennial Campus of N.C. State University. For more information, click here or call (919) 707-0209.
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