10
Love Agnes: Postcards from
an Octopus
Anniston Museum Natural History - 11am
• Come meet award-winning children’s
book author and poet Irene Latham as
she reads from her new book, LOVE, AG-
NES: POSTCARDS FROM AN OCTOPUS,
and leads kids in a postcard craft activ-
ity!
• Books will be available at the event for
purchase and autographing by the au-
thor. Agnes has a beak that can crush
bones and arms that stretch as wide as
a car--but that doesn’t make her a mon-
ster! After she comes across a postcard,
Agnes, a giant Pacific octopus, strikes
up a correspondence with various other
creatures below--and above--the waves.
Readers will delight in this unlikely intro-
duction to the octopus life cycle.
• Irene Latham (http://www.irenelatham.
com) is the author of more than a dozen
INSIGHT
current and forthcoming works of poet-
ry, fiction, and picture books, including
Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race,
Mistakes, and Friendship (co-written
with Charles Waters). Winner of the 2016
ILA Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet
Award, she also serves as poetry editor
for the Birmingham Arts Journal. Irene
lives with her family on a lake in Blount
County, Alabama.
This program is free with paid admission.
Members are free. Seating is limited
11
Feel the Thunder
at Mt Cheaha Harley – 11am
Our local H.O.G. Chapter will be accepting
donations for a toy drive benefiting the
Alabama Institute for the Deaf & Blind. On
November 11th, we will meet at the deal-
ership and ride to AIDB in Talledega, AL via
police escort. If you would like to donate,
please bring an unwrapped toy to Mt.
Cheaha Harley-Davidson before
November 11th.
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