The Patchwork Bike
- ISBN-10
- 1536221686
- ISBN-13
- 9781536221688
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 40
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-02-23
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press
- Author
- Maxine Beneba Clarke
Description
“The words and images in this snapshot story pulse with resourceful ingenuity, joyful exuberance, and layered meanings.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) 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 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner, this joyous story from Maxine Beneba Clarke, beautifully illustrated by street artist Van Thanh Rudd, is now available as an ebook.
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