It’s Black History Month, and that means it’s time for our annual giveaway from Lee & Low Books! We’re giving away three sets of three books featuring African Americans, and the contest will run through February 28, 2013.
To enter, follow in the footsteps of Dave the Potter, the subject of our new biography Etched in Clay: The Life of Dave, Enslaved Potter and Poet. Dave was an enslaved potter in South Carolina who inscribed his works with sayings and short poems in spite of harsh anti-literacy laws for slaves:
horses mules and hogs —
all our cows is in the bogs —
there they shall ever stay
till the buzzards take them away ==
March 29, 1836
I wonder where is all my relation
friendship to all — and, every nation
August 16, 1857
Write your own couplet in the comments below (it could be about anything, and doesn’t have to rhyme) to be entered in our giveaway. We’ll choose a winner at random.
Other ways to enter (or get up to 3 additional entries, if you also write a couplet):
1.) Follow us on Pinterest and let us know in the comments.
2.) Subscribe to this blog and let us know in the comments.
3.) Follow us on Twitter or like us on Facebook and let us know in the comments.
Check out some of the books you can win! Excited? We thought so!

We’ll be notifying the winners and sending out books after Black History Month is over, but we think our titles hold up year-round, not just during February! Black history is part of American History, and shouldn’t get relegated to one month out of the year. So enter below to win three great books to enjoy all year long!
[note: US addresses only]
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You publish such great stuff,
But for me, it’s never enough!
I also:
1.) Follow you on Pinterest
2.) Subscribe to this blog
3.) Follow you on Twitter
Thanks for the giveaway!
A couplet:
Nothing like a book giveaway
to make up for February’s dark, cold days!
In honor of today’s weather (and because I’m from California), here’s my couplet:
Snow: so beautiful & white,
My happiness has just reached new heights
I’d love to cuddle up in a warm nook,
to escape the wintry cold with a giveaway book!
Europe, Africa, Asia, I can go there
With a book, without leaving my chair!
Looks like a great giveaway. Happy Valentine’s day
I look forward to your website news monthly. I teach pre-k and my bi-weekly themes and your book lists help me.
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February: Black History Month and Valentine’s Day,
the perfect month for a book giveaway!
Reading the rich history of each other
May help us better understand our brother
I love my children like you
and I explain to them who
they belong to, and you
say I’m walking the line
between faith and bloodline
by merely breathing “Palestine”
Please publish books for kids about Palestine! (I follow you on Twitter too.)
Our ancestors trudged a merciless trail through slavery,
Branched on the tree of bravery
Our history runs deep…
We have invented, discussed, written, sang, professed, debated, rapped, calculated, quilted, reaped, counted and formed
the very fabric of the red, white and blue.
Yes, that’s so true!
I follow on twitter and facebook. Thanks for publishing multicultural books.
I subscribed to the blog.
My ancestors’ unpaid blood and sweat
built this nation;
Often without appreciation or recognition
they laid America’s rich foundation.
Through blood, sweat and tears
they fought
The pathway to freedom
they sought
Someone somewhere
they thought
The Underground Railroad
uncaught
I love sharing giveaways with my library patrons!
Entering for fun, if I win give my book to a daughter or son.
Go forth, carry on, reach out,
enrich all with your shout.
Our library would love to add these books to the children’s collection. I will donate them if I win!
How can we grow to heights unknown and soar above the hills,
If we are filled with hate and fear of which all dreams doth kill?
All the snow that fell today
The snow trucks took far far away.
I subscribed to your blog
I liked you on Facebook and follow you on Twitter
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If we don’t remember our history,
We’ll always live with the mystery.
I believe one day that black and white
Will be no different than day and night.
One will blend into the other
Just like children from father and mother.
I follow you on Pinterest
I subscribed to your blog
I like you on Facebook and follow you on Twitter
We have so much to learn
From the heroes of our past.
Near, far, and everywhere..
Books take me there!
Help us to always remember our past
Or else things as they are will never last.
Books meant to reach beyond the mind
Teach us to be fair and kind
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All those people in history making decisions,
Too bad so many look at them with derision
I follow you on Pinterest (Roy)
I follow this blog.
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I follow your blog by email
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