Tigers' Curtis Granderson donates book to schools

Tigers center fielder Curtis Granderson creates a new children's book, whose goals had nothing to do with profit but getting kids excited about learning. His new book "All You Can Be: Dream It, Draw It, Become It!" is being donated to public elementary school libraries in Michigan. Copies of the book are being donated by Granderson and Chicago-based publisher Triumph Books. The theme for the illustrations was: How do you see yourself when you are in high school, and how is education important to helping you become that person?

Granderson, who grew up in the south of Chicago, is the son of two schoolteachers and learned the importance of education at an early age. "There was one simple thing I wanted to achieve with 'All You Can Be' -- to make learning fun for school children," Granderson said. "My mother, Mary, co-author Terry Foster and I truly feel we have accomplished what we set out to do, which was to make learning fun through using creative and different ways to get Michigan's elementary school students thinking about their future." I think fans will also be excited if Granderson donates his tigers jersey.