Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave, by Laban Carrick Hill and illustrated by Bryan Collier, is the story of a little-known African-American artisan. Told in a rhythmic, rhyming text, the story shows Dave's triumph over adversity in the face of bigoted oppression.
Interrupting Chicken, written and illustrated by David Ezra Stein, is a humorous book about Little Red Chicken and her Papa. Papa wants to read a bedtime story, but Little Chicken always interrupts. (Sound familiar to anyone?) Papa comes up with a brilliant idea to have Little Red Chicken write her own story with hilarious results.
These three books show the diversity in children's literature today, but also a growing trend to help children accept other people's differences and to care about other people's needs.
