The Patchwork Bike
Author(s): Maxine Beneba Clarke
Winner of the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Crichton Award for Debut Illustrator 2017
Selected as a CBCA Honour Picture Book 2017
Shortlisted for PATRICIA WRIGHTSON PRIZE FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE 2018
'Beautifully written and incredibly powerful.' Books + Publishing
When you live in a village at the edge of the No-Go Desert, you need to make your own fun. That's when you and your brothers get inventive and build a bike from scratch, using everyday items like an old milk pot (maybe mum is still using it, maybe not) and a used flour sack. You can even make a numberplate from bark, if you want. The end result is a spectacular bike, perfect for going bumpity-bump over sandhills, past your fed-up mum and right through your mud-for-walls home.
A delightful story from multi-award-winning author Maxine Beneba Clarke, beautifully illustrated by street artist Van T Rudd.
Product Information
Beautifully written and incredibly powerful. Books and Publishing This is a wonderfully fast-moving picture book that celebrates the rebellious, the inventive and the just plain entertaining spirit of kids who are left to, rather than on their own devices. Bookshelf Gargoyle Blog
General Fields
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- : Lothian Children's Books
- : Lothian Children's Books
- : 0.3
- : 01 October 2016
- : 318mm X 242mm X 9mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : 32
- : 1
- : Hardback
- : Maxine Beneba Clarke
