With our support, award-winning illustrator Stacy Innerst captured 8-year-old Anthony Brown, a resident of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where more than half of children live in poverty. As family financial woes mount and his mother’s cancer encroaches, his mind drifts to a place where he can still be a kid: Horseshoe Island.

Stacy Innerst is an award-winning children’s book artist, painter, and educator.

Co-published with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.