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Ms. Hanner from Pittsburgh, PA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Storybook Art: Inspiring Young Creators Through Picture Books

Help me give my students picture books that introduce young readers to n artists who used their creativity to share stories, culture, and history. Kids will discover how art expresses identity, inspires hope, and celebrates community.

  • $774 goal

This project expired on September 4, 2025.

This project expired on September 4, 2025.

My Project

In our elementary art classroom, I love combining literature and visual expression. This project will allow my students to read beautiful, diverse picture books and create art inspired by the themes, illustrations, and cultures they encounter.

Each book will serve as a creative launchpad.

After reading together, students will reflect on the story and then engage in an art activity—painting, drawing, collage, or mixed media—that mirrors the book’s style, message, or mood. This approach reinforces reading comprehension and emotional connection and encourages deep creativity. This project will make art meaningful, interdisciplinary, and accessible to all learners, especially visual thinkers who come alive through creativity.

Ms. Hanner Urban Academy of Pittsburgh Charter School Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Pittsburgh, PA View local requests

Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

325 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
4 Book Set from Lil' Libros: The Life of Afro-Latinx (Spanish Bilingual Biographies: Basquiat, Pele, Pura, Celia) ESOL, ELL books • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $52.00 1 $52.00
Black Collagists: The Book • Amazon Business $44.95 1 $44.95
I Am Every Good Thing (hardcover picture book, ages 4-8) x Black Books Matter from MahoganyBooks • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.00 2 $38.00
Women Street Artists: 24 Contemporary Graffiti and Mural Artists from around the World • Amazon Business $28.49 1 $28.49
Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence • Amazon Business $25.00 1 $25.00
Basquiat • Amazon Business $20.90 1 $20.90
Black Artists Rock! The Cool Kids' Guide A-Z • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
Take a Picture of Me, James Van Der Zee! • Amazon Business $19.95 1 $19.95
Fearless Trailblazers: 11 Latinos Who Made US History (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
Basquiat: Art Masters Series • Amazon Business $17.33 1 $17.33
Beautiful Shades of Brown: The Art of Laura Wheeler Waring • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Black Artists Shaping the World • Amazon Business $15.96 1 $15.96
Sewing Stories: Harriet Powers' Journey from Slave to Artist • Amazon Business $15.85 1 $15.85
Art From Her Heart: Folk Artist Clementine Hunter • Amazon Business $14.15 1 $14.15
The Met Faith Ringgold: Narrating the World in Pattern and Color (What the Artist Saw) • Amazon Business $14.08 1 $14.08
Swatch: The Girl Who Loved Color - Reinforced Book • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave • Amazon Business $13.42 1 $13.42
Life Doesn't Frighten Me: A Poetry Picture Book • Amazon Business $13.07 1 $13.07
The Met Vincent van Gogh: He saw the world in vibrant colors (What the Artist Saw) • Amazon Business $12.63 1 $12.63
The Met Claude Monet: He Saw the World in Brilliant Light (What the Artist Saw) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
It Jes' Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw • Amazon Business $11.95 1 $11.95
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (Caldecott & Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner) • Amazon Business $11.42 1 $11.42
Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor's Life • Amazon Business $11.22 1 $11.22
Kid Artists: True Tales of Childhood from Creative Legends (Kid Legends) • Amazon Business $11.19 1 $11.19
Maybe Something Beautiful: How Art Transformed a Neighborhood • Amazon Business $10.83 1 $10.83
Jump at the Sun: The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston • Amazon Business $10.43 1 $10.43
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut • Amazon Business $10.37 1 $10.37
Sky Color (Creatrilogy) • Amazon Business $10.29 1 $10.29
A Walk in Harlem (Ana & Andrew) • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Ish (Creatrilogy) • Amazon Business $9.93 1 $9.93
Famous Artists in History: An Art History Book for Kids (Biographies for Kids) • Amazon Business $9.79 1 $9.79
The Met Georgia O'Keeffe: She saw the world in a flower (What the Artist Saw) • Amazon Business $9.59 1 $9.59
Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos • Amazon Business $9.33 1 $9.33
Young, Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present (See Yourself in Their Stories) • Amazon Business $8.94 1 $8.94
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America • Amazon Business $8.81 1 $8.81
Artists: My First Artists (Little People, BIG DREAMS) • Amazon Business $8.49 1 $8.49
We Came To America • Amazon Business $8.36 1 $8.36
The Life of / La vida de Basquiat: A Bilingual Picture Book Biography (Lil' Libros) (English and Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $7.09 1 $7.09
Faith Ringgold (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists: Previous Editions) • Amazon Business $6.95 1 $6.95
Cassie's Word Quilt (Avenues) • Amazon Business $6.89 1 $6.89

Materials cost

$618.43

Vendor shipping charges

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Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.28

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$657.71

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$116.07

Total project goal

$773.78

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