NMLP P-018320 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave

Laban Carrick Hill (illus. Bryan Collier) · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers · 2010

The US Little, Brown edition of 2010 is the true first. In 2011 it was named a Caldecott Honor Book, and Bryan Collier won the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, so the true-first jacket predates the seals.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-018320 for "Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave" by Laban Carrick Hill (illus. Bryan Collier) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-018320, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).