Catherine Kirkbride Keenan 
Clay 
Homer and Shakespeare Start a Pottery

In this delightful, repetitive poem, the process of transforming clay into pottery is told. Early East Liverpool, Ohio potters, the brothers Shakespeare and Homer find and work the clay and build one of the world’s largest potteries. Young readers may follow along in the story by doing hand motions of ’clay’ crafting and by viewing the fine art paintings that illustrate the process of ’clay’ production.