The Patchwork Bike by Maxine Beneba Clarke
The Patchwork Bike by Maxine Beneba Clarke
The Patchwork Bike by Maxine Beneba Clarke
The Patchwork Bike by Maxine Beneba Clarke

The Patchwork Bike by Maxine Beneba Clarke

Illustrated by Van T. Rudd

What's the best fun in the whole village? Riding the patchwork bike we made! A joyous picture book for children by award-winning author Maxine Beneba Clarke.

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.

Condition: Very good condition
Format: Paperback
Age: 4-7

Maxine Beneba Clarke is a widely published Australian writer of Afro-Caribbean descent and the author of the poetry collections Gil Scott Heron Is on Parole and Nothing Here Needs Fixing. Maxine's short fiction, non-fiction and poetry have been published in numerous publications including Overland, The Age, Meanjin, The Saturday Paper and The Big Issue. Her critically acclaimed short fiction collection Foreign Soil (2014) won the ABIA for Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2015, the 2015 Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction, and Maxine was also named as one of the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Novelists for 2015, as well as being shortlisted for the Matt Richell Award for New Writing at the 2015 ABIAs and the 2015 Stella Prize.

Carrying the World, Maxine's collection of poetry, won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry 2017 and was shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Award. The Hate Race, a memoir about growing up black in Australia won the NSW Premier's Multicultural NSW Award and was shortlisted for an ABIA, an Indie Award, the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and The Stella Prize. The Patchwork Bike, Maxine's first picture book with Van T. Rudd.

Rudd is a street muralist, street sculptor, creative interventionist, cartoonist, social justice activist and painter. He has exhibited his art widely around Australia and has defended his art from censorship on several occasions. His visual art has been shortlisted for a number of prizes including the Metro Art Prize (2004) and the Sunshine Coast Art Prize (2007, 2009) and he received the people's choice award in the Free West Papua Sampari Art Exhibition (2015) for his sculpture Let Unity and Love Take Form. He recently illustrated his first children's picture book The Patchwork Bike, written by acclaimed author Maxine Beneba Clarke, and the book has since been shortlisted in both the 2017 CBCA and Crichton Awards.

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