The Please Touch Museum held its annual Storybook Ball on Saturday April 25th to benefit the museum’s literacy programming for young children. Families were encouraged to dress as their favorite storybook characters or superhero. It was an evening of enchantment with entertainment and family-friendly cuisine, like hot dogs, burgers and pizza catered by Brûlée Catering. For dessert, there was ice cream and pudding.
Kids enjoyed rides on the carousel, and theatrical and musical performances by Baby Loves Disco. Special guest appearances included story book readings by Sarah Bloomquist of 6ABC and Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen, a children’s book author who read from her book Tyrannosaurus Wrecks. Magician Tom McDonnell was on hand with lots of sleight of hand, card tricks and friendly rabbits. This year there were a lot of characters roaming about including Wild Thing, Ryan Lion, Curious George, Paddington Bear, Baby Mouse, Prince Charming and of course Cinderella.
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