Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave was written by Laban Carrick Hill and Illustrated by Bryan Collier. It is the Coretta Scott King award winner for illustrations in 2011 as well as a Caldecott Honor book form 2011.
This book is a biographical story book about the life of Dave, a potter, slave, and poet who lived in South Carolina int he early 1800's. The story is a small part of his life which centers on the pottery itself, and it chronicles how a pot was made from finding the clay, to throwing a pot on the wheel, drying it, ash glazing it and making his mark to let you know who made the pot. It is very descriptive and the wonderful illustrations add so much to the character and the setting as well.
Illustrated in watercolor and collage, the pictures tell a story all their own about the life of slaves on a plantation in South Carolina. The use of real photographic images mixed with watercolor on paper in the collage brings the images to life in a way that will make you take more than one look at the book. The research the illustrator put into his work about the life of Dave is obviously one of admiration as is obvious in the viewing of the pages.
Hill, L. C., & Collier, B. (2010). Dave the potter: artist, poet, slave. New York: Little, Brown.
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