The Patchwork Bike

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 04/13/2021
ISBN: 9781536217414
Pages: 40
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 501940 / Patchwork Bike
Reading Level: 2.9 / Interest Level: Lower Grade / Point Value: 0.5