Monday, May 16, 2011

National Doodle Day

 
The kids have some art for sale!

National Doodle Day is an annual project in which celebrity doodles are auctioned off to raise money for a charity.  Past doodlers include people like Jay Leno, Tony Bennett, and Barack Obama.  Proceeds from this year's sales will go to help people suffering from Neurofibromatosis, a disease in which tumors grow along the nervous system.

Someone from the National Doodle Day committee saw an article about the Z-Kids in the newspaper, felt they qualified as celebrities, and invited them to participate.

Here are the Z-Kids' doodles:








Many of the other folks who donated Doodles this year are also involved in children's literature.  Here are a few examples:

Calef Brown


Eric Carle


Neil Gaiman


Daniel Pinkwater


Peter Reynolds


Andy Runton


Michael Slack


Mo Willems


Aaron Zenz



You can click HERE to see 150 participants in this year's auction.
And you can click HERE for the auction (auction now over)
Or you can click HERE to to go straight to the Z-Kid doodles, pick up some original art, AND help out a great charitable cause!

Update:  Thanks to anyone who bid on the Z-kids' Doodles!  We helped to raise $159 toward the total auction tally!

3 comments:

Rebecca Gomez said...

LOVE the doodles! That blue jay is just amazing!

Heidi Noel said...

Wow! What an honor. Congratulations. I definitely love their chosen art.

Jamie {See Jamie blog} said...

Those are fantastic doodles!!