Dave the Potter by Laban Carrick Hill and Illustrated by Bryan Collier is a winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award. This book is also a 2011 Caldecott Honor Book.
Dave the Potter is a biography. It is beautifully illustrated. The illustrations have depth and superb detail the advances the story and makes the life of Dave genuine to the reader. This story is about Dave, who lived over 200 years ago. He is a potter, an artist, a poet, and a slave who has left behind a legacy of human inspiration and tangible artistry, both pottery and poetry.
I chose this book because I had seen one of Dave’s pots on the Antique Road show years ago and also saw a PBS special about Dave’s pots around that same time. The legacy that Dave left behind is amazing. The indomitable spirit infused in the clay pots and the poems leaves me wanting to know more about this man that was born a slave and died an artist and poet. He is an inspiration.
Hill, L. C. (2010). Dave the Potter Artist, Poet, Slave. New York: Little, Brown, and Company.
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