LAKEPORT, Calif. – Children's author Kim Zwemer-Margulis will be talking about her experience with wildfire, helping children get through trauma and her children's wildfire healing book “Shadowchaser of the Siskiyous” on Saturday, April 2, at the Lakeport Library.

Zwemer-Margulis will speak from 10:30 to 11 a.m. at the library, 1425 North High St.

“Shadowchaser of the Siskiyous” follows a small deer family through their first year of life.

A fawn is born in the biologically important Siskiyou Mountains of Southern Oregon. Along with his mother and brother, he experiences danger from predators, play with other fawns, and browsing on forest foods in his first months of life.

Then wildfire strikes the land, and the family seeks safety in a nearby creek.

The story is completed with the deer’s mating cycle, the brothers forming antler nubs, and the passing of winter before they are old enough to leave their mother to be on their own.

The book allows children to explore the effects of wildfire in a third-party manner, aiding them to integrate their own experience with wildfire.