Chaucer’s Books will host co-authors Bruce Giffin and Dean Noble, executive director of Elings Park, along with illustrator Laura-Susan Thomas, for a kids storytime and activity hour to celebrate the release of the book “Bobcat’s Tail,” 2:30-4:30 p.m., Sunday Feb. 8 at 3321 State St., Santa Barbara.

The Elings Park Foundation will receive 10% of all sales, Chaucer’s said. Elings Park is the largest community supported, nonprofit, public park in America.

Giffin has loved children’s books since he was a kid. As a 5-year-old, an exciting ride in the back of his uncle’s pickup truck with a load of trash to take to the Santa Barbara City Dump introduced him to what would become Elings Park.

As a long-time Elings Park Foundation Board member, Giffin said he pondered for many years how to explain the amazing story of a community working together to create Elings Park, America’s largest non-profit park and an environmental pioneer in landfill conversions.

Giffin let Jerry Harwin and Puff the Bobcat tell that story.

Thomas is an artist and educator. She has worked as a Walt Disney Imagineer creating for the theme parks from EuroDisney, Disney’s Animal Kingdom to Tokyo DisneySeas.

As a freelance illustrator she creates work for children’s books and media, and as a fine artist creating and showing works in galleries and public spaces.

To learn more, visit https://laurasusanthomasillustrator.carbonmade.com.