# Event Details - **Event Name**: Saturday Afternoon with Author Mary Kay Carson - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 18 Apr, 2026 at 01:00 pm – Sat, 18 Apr, 2026 at 02:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: Join us in welcomeing author Mary Carson in celebration of her new nonfiction book (ages 3+), Before It Was a Hurricane.About this EventBefore It Was a Hurricane starts at the peak of the action-the chaos and power of a hurricane at full strength-before stepping backward through time. Follow its four-thousand-mile journey from a hot desert breeze to the most destructive storm on Earth.Mary Kay Carson is the author of more than sixty books for young people about wildlife, space, weather, nature, science, and history. After studying biology in college, and a stint in the Peace Corps, she began her thirty-year writing career working on the classroom magazine SuperScience at Scholastic in New York City. Her works encompass a wide range of juvenile genres, from nonfiction to picture books as well as historical fiction chapter books. Carson’s books have received more than a dozen starred reviews, as well as multiple awards, including the 2023 Giverny Award for Best Children’s Science Picture Book for The River That Wolves Moved and the 2019 AAAS Prize for Excellence in Science Books for Alexander Graham Bell for Kids. She partnered with her husband, photographer-videographer Tom Uhlman, to write and photo-illustrate seven titles in the acclaimed Scientists in the Field series, including Urban Coyotes, a 2025 NCTE Orbis Pictus Recommended Book; The Tornado Scientist, a State Library of Ohio Choose To Read Ohio title for 2021-22; and The Bat Scientists, an American Library Association 2011 Notable Children's Book for Middle Readers. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, in a century-old house surrounded by urban greenspace, deer, hawks, woodchucks, and songbirds. www.marykaycarson.com - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/upper-arlington/saturday-afternoon-with-author-mary-kay-carson/100001986176517430 - **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Kids - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fsaturday-afternoon-with-author-mary-kay-carson-tickets-1986176517430 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Upper Arlington - **state**: OH - **country**: United States - **location**: Cover to Cover Children's Books - **lat**: 39.9994733 - **long**: -83.061739 - **full address**: Cover to Cover Children's Books, 2116 Arlington Avenue, Upper Arlington, United States ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Cover to Cover Children's Books (https://allevents.in/org/cover-to-cover-childrens-books/20332864) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/7c75b4fd31bedabd6054430634ee54f93560797109830ffeb5e3897f0e957fdf-rimg-w1200-h630-dc2c4b5d-gmir.jpg?v=1775398624 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/311332c7ccc67c1957db2dd8176d4eabd5be7a298df48260c7f7a1c278fd3fee-rimg-w400-h400-dc07a7de-gmir.jpg?v=1775398624 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Sat, 18 Apr, 2026 at 01:00 pm (-04:00) - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Cover to Cover Children's Books, 2116 Arlington Avenue, Upper Arlington, United States - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 USD - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Cover to Cover Children's Books - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** Art, literary-art, Kids - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Saturday Afternoon with Author Mary Kay Carson ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Saturday Afternoon with Author Mary Kay Carson", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/7c75b4fd31bedabd6054430634ee54f93560797109830ffeb5e3897f0e957fdf-rimg-w1200-h630-dc2c4b5d-gmir.jpg?v=1775398624", "startDate": "2026-04-18T13:00:00-04:00", "endDate": "2026-04-18T14:00:00-04:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/upper-arlington/saturday-afternoon-with-author-mary-kay-carson/100001986176517430", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Cover to Cover Children's Books", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "2116 Arlington Avenue", "postalCode": "43221", "addressLocality": "Upper Arlington", "addressRegion": "OH", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "39.9994733", "longitude": "-83.061739" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join us in welcomeing author Mary Carson in celebration of her new nonfiction book (ages 3+), Before It Was a Hurricane.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "2026-04-18T14:00:00-04:00", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/upper-arlington/saturday-afternoon-with-author-mary-kay-carson/100001986176517430" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "url": "https://allevents.in/upper-arlington/saturday-afternoon-with-author-mary-kay-carson/100001986176517430", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Cover to Cover Childrens Books", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/cover-to-cover-childrens-books/20332864", "description": "For over 40 years, Cover to Cover Children's Books has loved sharing a passion for reading with children, parents, teachers and librarians. 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