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A timely, powerful and much-needed picture book exploring the
background to the Black Lives Matter movement for young children. A
beautifully illustrated and poignant picture book about the Black
Lives Matter movement - its deep history, background and meaning -
as well as a focus on the tremendous amount of work still left to
do. Through author-illustrator Maxine Beneba Clarke's glorious
artwork and lyrical text, this book fosters activism, being
anti-racist and using your voice and your power for good. A brave,
empowering and inspiring read for all children.
A timely, powerful and much-needed picture book exploring the
background to the Black Lives Matter movement for young children. A
beautifully illustrated and poignant picture book about the Black
Lives Matter movement - it's deep history, background and meaning -
as well as a focus on the tremendous amount of work still left to
do. Through author-illustrator Maxine Beneba Clarke's glorious
artwork and lyrical text, this book fosters activism, being
anti-racist and using your voice and your power for good. A brave,
empowering and inspiring read for all children.
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Wide Big World (Paperback)
Maxine Beneba Clarke; Illustrated by Isobel Knowles
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R302
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Difference is everywhere, just look and see. This
whole-wide-big-world is wondrous-unique. A gorgeous picture book
about our diverse and wonderful world from award-winning author
Maxine Beneba Clarke and illustrator Isobel Knowles. PRAISE FOR THE
PATCHWORK BIKE 'Like all the best writing, The Patchwork Bike asks
more questions than it answers, making it a great conversation
starter to learn more about other cultures, but it's also a
delightful picture book for kids aged three and up that depicts the
universal joy that riding a bike bestows.' - Books+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.' - Picture
Book Perusal
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The Patchwork Bike (Paperback)
Maxine Beneba Clarke; Illustrated by Van Thanh Rudd
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The Patchwork Bike (Hardcover)
Maxine Beneba Clarke; Illustrated by Van Thanh Rudd
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Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Picture Book Award 2019 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 'this book is just what many of us need right
now' - starred Kirkus 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
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.
People of African descent have been in Australia for at least 200
years, yet their stories are largely missing from Australian
writing. Australians of the African diaspora have arrived here in
many different ways- directly from the continent; via the
Caribbean, the Americas and the United Kingdom; making the journey
to Australia over one generation, or several. What is it like to
grow up African in Australia? This anthology, compiled by
award-winning author Maxine Beneba Clarke with curatorial
assistance from writers Ahmed Yussuf and Magan Magan, showcases
diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that
question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile
cultural and sporting identities sit alongside newly discovered
voices of all ages, with experiences spanning regions, cities and
generations. All of the pieces call for understanding, oftentimes
challenging stereotypes, always demanding respect. Growing Up
African aims to defy, question or shed light on the many
stereotypes that currently exist about the vibrant extended African
community in Australia. Contributors include Faustina Agolley,
Santilla Chingaipe, Carly Findlay, Khalid Warsame, Nyadol Nyuon,
Tariro Mavondo, Magan Magan and many, many more.
'The best short fiction writers place their pens down and leave you
with a haunting: a deep shifting of self, precipitated by
impossibly few words.' --Maxine Beneba Clarke In The Best
Australian Stories 2017, Maxine Beneba Clarke - author of the
critically acclaimed memoir The Hate Race and award-winning short
story collection Foreign Soil - selects the most remarkable short
fiction of the past year. A woman sails to unfamiliar shores to
start her life with a stranger. A boy goes to school one day and
returns home twenty years older. The government erects a wall
across the country and right down the middle of a marital bed.
Diverse in style and voice, these exceptional stories have been
chosen by Clarke because they 'push and pull at our hearts,
demanding entry into their chambers'. Contributors include Dominic
Amerena, Madeline Bailey, Tony Birch, Verity Borthwick, Raelee
Chapman, Elizabeth Tien An Flux, Cassie Hamer, John Kinsella, Julie
Koh, Melissa Lucashenko, Myfanwy McDonald, Jennifer Mills, Joshua
Mostafa, Ryan O'Neill, David Oberg, Allee Richards, Mirandi Riwoe,
Josephine Rowe, Joe Rubbo, Beejay Silcox and Ellen van Neerven.
Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for
Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2017 'Against anything
I had ever been told was possible, I was turning white. On the
surface of my skin, a miracle was quietly brewing . . .' Suburban
Australia. Sweltering heat. Three bedroom blonde-brick. Family of
five. Beat-up Ford Falcon. Vegemite on toast. Maxine Beneba
Clarke's life is just like all the other Aussie kids on her street.
Except for this one, glaring, inescapably obvious thing. From one
of Australia's most exciting writers, and the author of the
multi-award-winning FOREIGN SOIL, comes THE HATE RACE: a powerful,
funny, and at times devastating memoir about growing up black in
white middle-class Australia.
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Foreign Soil (Paperback)
Maxine Beneba Clarke
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WINNER- Indie Book Awards 2015 (Best Debut Fiction Book) WINNER-
The ABIA Award (Literary Fiction Book of the Year) 2015 WINNER-
Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists of 2015
WINNER- Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award 2013
'Foreign Soil will stay with you with the force of elemental truth.
Clarke is the real deal' Dave Eggers In this collection of
award-winning stories, Melbourne writer Maxine Beneba Clarke has
given a voice to the disenfranchised, the lost, the downtrodden and
the mistreated. It will challenge you, it will have you by the
heartstrings. This is contemporary fiction at its finest. In
Melbourne's western suburbs, in a dilapidated block of flats
overhanging the rattling Footscray train lines, a young black
mother is working on a collection of stories. The book is called
Foreign Soil. Inside its covers, a desperate asylum seeker is
pacing the hallways of Sydney's notorious Villawood detention
centre, a seven-year-old Sudanese boy has found solace in a
patchwork bike, an enraged black militant is on the warpath through
the rebel squats of 1960s Brixton, a Mississippi housewife decides
to make the ultimate sacrifice to save her son from small-town
ignorance, a young woman leaves rural Jamaica in search of her
destiny, and a Sydney schoolgirl loses her way. The young mother
keeps writing, the rejection letters keep arriving . . . 'A woven
tapestry of the shared experience of living in a country that is
not your own' Stylist
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