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About Laban Carrick Hill
See more books from this Author7th, 2010 Page count: 40pp ...
| Read Full Review of Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet...As Dave wrote on a pot just before the Civil War, after five owners and almost six decades in bondage: “I wonder where is all my relation / friendship to all — and, every nation.” Tony Horwitz, the author of “Confederates in the Attic,” is writing a book about John Brown’s rai...
Nov 05 2010 | Read Full Review of Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet...Before the clay is hardened, Dave uses a stick to inscribe a short poem: “I wonder where is all my relations/ Friendship to all—and every nation.” The illustration shows Dave at work, dating it as “Aug 16, 1859.”The book concludes with an endnote that includes photographs of Dave’s pots, seven sa...
Sep 07 2010 | Read Full Review of Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet...Instead, images of shackles and chains, and of slaves picking cotton in the fields, remind the reader that Dave was a slave.
Sep 07 2010 | Read Full Review of Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet...However, the poetry and drawings of the book deal solely with Dave's artistry and craft, and parents can decide how much they want to discuss his life as a slave.
May 07 2016 | Read Full Review of Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet..."If a saloon and bookstore can't make it on the Upper West Side, what better evidence do you need than that of the decline of artistic and free thought?
| Read Full Review of Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet...Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave by Laban Carrick Hill and illustrated by Bryan Collier won the Coretta Scott King Award for 2011.
Jun 17 2011 | Read Full Review of Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet...An aggregated and normalized score based on 27 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes