The Patchwork Bike by Maxine Beneba Clarke

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The Patchwork Bike by Maxine Beneba Clarke

It has a bent bucket seat, bashed tin-can handlebars, and wood-cut wheels -- and riding the patchwork bike that you and your crazy brothers made is the best fun in the whole village.

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 license plate from bark if you want. The end result is a spectacular bike, perfect for whooping and laughing as you bumpetty bump over sand hills, past your fed-up mum and right through your mud-for-walls home. A joyous story by multi-award-winning author Maxine Beneba Clarke, beautifully illustrated by street artist Van Thanh Rudd.

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Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian novelist, poet, and editor based in Melbourne. She won the 2013 Victorian Premier's Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript, the Debut Fiction Indie Award, and the Literary Fiction Book of the Year in the Australian Book Industry Awards, in addition to the Hazel Rowley Fellowship for Biography. Maxine's debut novel is Foreign Soil.

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ISBN 13 9781536200317
ISBN 10 153620031X
Title The Patchwork Bike
Author Maxine Beneba Clarke
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Candlewick Press,U.S.
Year published 2018-09-11
Number of pages 40
Prizes Winner of Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Excellence in Children's Literature.
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.