EVENTS
MEET & GREET Patricia Austin
Where: Blue Cypress Book Store 8123 Oak St, New Orleans, LA 70118
When: Saturday, May 4 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
What: It's Teacher Appreciation Week! Come chat with the author of Tales from a Teaching Life: Vignettes in Verse
SCHOOL VISIT
Louise McGehee School, New Orleans, May 3rd. 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grades.
SCHOOL VISIT
St. Andrew Episcopal School, New Orleans, April 23. PreK-5th grades.
When: April 12, 2024
Where: University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
What: Feel the Feelings: Exploring Social and Emotional Development Through Poetry
With an increasing need to address social and emotional development in elementary-age children, this session will highlight poetic texts as a window to an internal landscape. Poetry evokes emotions because it is a multisensory experience, making words come alive by engaging readers’ and listeners’ senses. Imagery appeals to the senses of sight, touch, and taste. Rhythm, meter, patterns of language, and poetic devices such as onomatopoeia, alliteration and assonance appeal to the sense of hearing. Reading and writing poetry opens up conversations about emotions.
SCHOOL VISIT
Waldorf School, New Orleans, LA, March 8, 2024. 3rd-6th grades
LMNL Reading Series
When: January 21, 2024 6 pm
Where: The Domino, 3044 St Claude Ave New Orleans, LA
What: Patricia Austin will be reading from Tales from a Teaching Life: Vignettes in Verse and Elephant of Sadness, Butterfly of Joy. Books available for purchase.
New Orleans Public Library's Author Day for Kids & Teens
When: December 16, 2023. 10:30-12:30 am
Where: Milton H. Latter Memorial Library, 5120 St Charles Ave, New Orleans, LA 70115.
What: Meet local authors of children's and teen's books, featuring author readings, books available for purchase, and book-themed crafts.
LITERACY NIGHT
When: December 12, 2023 5:30 - 6:30 pm
Where: Paul Solis Elementary School; Jefferson Parish Public Schools
What: Patricia Austin will be reading to 3rd-5th graders from Elephant of Sadness, Butterfly of Joy.
When: December 2, 2023 11:00 a.m.
Where: Garden District Book Shop, 2727 Prytania St. New Orleans, LA 70130
What: For storytime at the uptown bookstore, Patricia Austin will engage young listeners in talking about feelings as she reads Elephant of Sadness, Butterfly of Joy.
BOOK LAUNCH
TALES FROM A TEACHING LIFE: VIGNETTES IN VERSE
When: Thursday, October 19, 2023 at 5 pm
Where: Earl K. Long Library, Room 407, on the campus of the University of New Orleans
What: Patricia Austin, long-time teacher and professor emerita of UNO, will be reading from her new book. On display will be myriad books her students have produced over her forty-six year teaching career.
When: 10:30 a. m. Saturday, September 23, 2023
Where: Beauregard Keyes House in the French Quarter, main floor
What: Leading this session is Susan Shadt, owner of Susan Schadt Press, a boutique publishing company specializing in beautiful special interest books. She will be joined by four of her authors: Patricia Austin, Matt Haines, Echo Olander, and Madison Webb, all with entertaining new special interest books for adults and children.
Where: The Hilton Baton Rouge Capital Center, 201 Lafayette St
What: Pat Austin discussing Tales From a Teaching Life: Vignettes in Verse with Editor Chelsey Shannon
This online events is scheduled for July 27, 2023 3:40 - 4:30 PM ET
Navigating Our Emotional World
Understanding new situations, or their own feelings, can be confusing, sometimes frightening, to children, but with support they learn to navigate their worlds.
Patricia Austin, Elephant of Sadness, Butterfly of Joy (Susan Schadt Press)
Andi Diehn, Mama’s Days (Reycraft)
Gabriel Frye-Behar, Pepita Meets Bebita (Random House Children's Books)
Maya Tatsukawa, Mole Is Not Alone (Macmillan Children’s)
Moderator: J. Elizabeth Mills, Program Manager, WebJunction