The patchwork bike / Maxine Beneba Clarke ; Van T. Rudd.
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TextPublisher: Sydney, NSW : Hachette Australia, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 32 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780734416681Subject(s): Bicycles -- Juvenile fiction | Bicycles -- Design and construction -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Children's stories. DDC classification: A823.4 Awards: The Children's Book of the Year Awards : Shortlisted Book (The Children's Book Council of Australia)Summary: CBCA PICTURE BOOKS NOTABLES 2017. SELECTED AS A CBCA (Children's Book Council of Australia) NOTABLE PICTURE BOOK 2017 '..beautifully written and incredibly powerful..' BOOKS AND 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. 6 yrs+
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Junior Kindergarten | JK CLA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111069861464 |
"A Lothian Children's Book" --Copyright page.
For pre-school age.
The Children's Book of the Year Awards : Shortlisted Book (The Children's Book Council of Australia)
CBCA PICTURE BOOKS NOTABLES 2017. SELECTED AS A CBCA (Children's Book Council of Australia) NOTABLE PICTURE BOOK 2017 '..beautifully written and incredibly powerful..' BOOKS AND 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. 6 yrs+
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