Say Yes to Education and Frazer School Children’s Book Project

In collaboration with Professor James Ransome, a nationally acclaimed illustrator and SU Assistant Professor in the School of Art and Design, Frazer Say Yes program coordinator Kristi Eck and site director Andrew Mount developed a Say Yes to Education book project based on the theme “A Community Garden,” which they use with their After School students as a metaphor for life on the west side of Syracuse, including its people, animals, healthy living, nature and hope for a future of continual, positive growth. Frazer students are working with SU illustration students to express, cultivate and record their ideas in a playful, original text. The book will follow the story line of a fictional child, representing all the children in the course, and that child’s experiences in the Frazer Say Yes After School program as well as his experiences living on the west side of Syracuse.