Basketball, Cancer Screenings Take Center Court

It’s a veritable palette of colors when talking about fruits and vegetables – and also when speaking of the Children’s Art Project at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.

Pediatric patients at M.D. Anderson have literally "grown" an alphabet garden. It started with apples and blossomed into an ABC board book for young readers and a new product line for the Children’s Art Project at M.D. Anderson.

The new "Alphabet Garden" board book includes the artwork of 18 young artists who are patients or former patients at M.D. Anderson. The seeds for these fruit and vegetable drawings were first planted as art done in a weekly art class at the cancer center and finally rooted into the gift line that the project began marketing this fall. The art classes were funded by the Children’s Art Project.

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