Tomorrow, June 10, we'll be celebrating the birthday of popular author Maurice Sendak!
Come and share a special storytime and meet a Wild Thing at 10:30 am, 12:30 pm, and 3:30 pm in the Story Castle. After you meet the Wild Thing, swing by the Program Room and design your own Wild Thing. And with that, let the Wild Rumpus start!
You can also celebrate Mr. Sendak's life and work by checking out the blog art project Terrible Yellow Eyes. Over five months, dozens of artists submitted their own reinterpretations of Sendak's artwork from his most beloved book "Where the Wild Things Are." The results are as unpredictable and wild as the book itself and include different types of art, from ink drawings to dioramas to paper cut-outs. The project finished on January 1, 2010, but you can still see all of the amazing artwork.
Can you make your own Wild Thing at home? Or can you look like a Wild Thing yourself?
This past weekend, our visitors perused a selection of past Please Touch Museum Book Award winners and voted on their all-time favorite. Thanks to everyone who voted!
The winning book is…I Love Our Earth by Bill Martin Jr. and Michael Sampson, illustrated by Dan Lipow.
I Love Our Earth was selected as the winner of the 4 to 7 year old category for the 2007 Book Award. In this book, Martin and Sampson’s text celebrates the natural splendor of our Earth and the diversity of its inhabitants (both human and animal). While simple on the surface, their rhyming text conceals a great love and appreciation for our planet. Lipow’s photographs are varied in subject and traverse the globe; from alpine mountains to the backyard. They prominently feature not only our world’s beauty, but also kids from around the world, showing that no matter how different our daily lives are, we all have pretty much the same stuff on the inside.
Original photographic prints, on loan from the book’s illustrator Dan Lipow, are currently on display at the museum and will remain in the Etch-a-Sketch Display Case until May 4, so be sure check them out during your next visit!
Last Saturday, January 9, Please Touch Museum opened its newest programming space: the Story Castle!
Our friend the Jester has a lot of things in the air!
Tomorrow, Saturday, January 9 at Noon, Please Touch Museum will unveil its newest feature. . . .
The Story Castle!
We are over the moon about the opening of this very special, intimate programming space located in the museum's
Kids Store. You can expect to see a variety of programming happening there seven days a week: story times, story telling, puppet pals, and special visits from our favorite storybook characters!
The Story Castle will provide kids with a smaller and quieter space to enjoy PTM’s interactive, dramatic, and storytime programming. While it is easily accessible from the gallery floor, it is tucked away in our
Kids Store so that you and your child can enjoy a story and other programming in a calm, relaxed atmosphere.
Literacy skills are an important educational benchmark in young children, and the Story Castle will offer kids a chance to participate in PTM’s interactive literacy programming in an environment conducive to enhanced focus and concentration. It is never too early to read with your child and introduce them to books and reading, and engaging activities help to create the cognitive foundation that is necessary for a lifetime of learning.
I hope you can join me tomorrow at Noon for the grand opening celebration, which will feature storytimes every hour on the hour, plus special appearances by Cinderella and the Queen of Hearts, along with your favorite PTM puppet pals!
