Big Class hopes to raise $20,000 on Kickstarter to fund the ten projects on their 2011-2012 book list.
The New Orleans-based literacy organization fosters creative collaborations between young students and adult artists. The kids write the manuscripts while the adults provide the illustrations. The students come from John Dibert Community School, Lincoln Elementary School, Langston Hughes Academy, Arise Academy, and Ella Dolhonde Elementary. Above, we’ve embedded a video about the project.
Here’s more about the project: “There are high costs inherent in this process. Between printing the books, getting them shipped to us, putting on our events, paying for equipment (like cameras), we need help. Most importantly, we will be giving the books to students all over New Orleans for free, so we will need to print thousands of copies. We also use the techniques and design-thinking that are the standards of professionally-made books. Our students make real books.”
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