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Aussie Kids: Meet Taj at the Lighthouse by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$12.99 AUD
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Aussie Kids Ser.
Hi! I'm Taj. This is my favourite T-shirt. I brought it to Australia from my old home. My family came here after a long journey. It was hard at first, but now I love my new home!
Fashionista by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children Picture Books
A beautiful new picture book written and illustrated by Maxine Beneba Clarke - all about the power of expressing yourself. Put on your passion. Flaunt your heart on your sleeve. You're a fashionista. Work it. Wear it. Believe. A gorgeous gift book for anyone who wants to embrace their individuality fr ...Show more
How Decent Folk Behave (PB) by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
We are all just one small disaster away from sinking, and sometimes you only realise when you're gasping for air. On a daylight street in Minneapolis Minnesota, a Black man is asphyxiated - by the callous knee of an officer, by cruel might of state, and under crushing weight of colony. In Melbourne the ...Show more
It's the Sound of the Thing : 100 new poems for young people by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non fiction
It’s the Sound of the Thing is an exuberant and evocative collection of poetry for young people from Maxine Beneba Clarke, one of Australia’s most innovative and celebrated poets. This extraordinary collection celebrates the joy of language and features enticing and relatable poems about everyday life ...Show more
The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
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 ...Show more
The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'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 th ...Show more
The Patchwork Bike by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$26.99 AUD
Category: Childrens
Winner of the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Crichton Award for Debut Illustrator 2017Selected as a CBCA Honour Picture Book 2017Shortlisted for PATRICIA WRIGHTSON PRIZE FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE 2018 'Beautifully written and incredibly powerful.' Books + Publishing When you live in a vil ...Show more
The Patchwork Bike by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children Picture Books
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 bro ...Show more
The Saturday Portraits by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A collection of stunning biographical portraits from Maxine Beneba Clarke, bestselling and prize-winning author of THE HATE RACE and FOREIGN SOIL. The year is 2014, editor Erik Jensen contacts short fiction writer Maxine Beneba Clarke, and convinces her to write creative portraits for a new national new ...Show more
We Know a Place (HB) by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children Picture Books
A joyous illustrated tribute to bookshops everywhere, and the special place they hold in children's hearts and minds, from of one Australia's most beloved writers. We know a place that's mysterious-magic,a window to lives you can't even imagine.We know a secret world-wakening secret,a brain-boggling se ...Show more
When We Say Black Lives Matter by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$23.99 AUD
$26.99 (11% off)
Category: Children Picture Books
Little one, when we say Black Lives Matter,we're saying black people are wonderful-strong. That we deserve to be treated with basic respect,and that history's done us wrong. From birth to the end of school, in joy and in sorrow, on the trumpet and the djembe, at home and in the community, a black child' ...Show more
Wide Big World by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$26.99 AUD
Category: Childrens
Difference is everywhere, just look and see. This whole-wide-big-world is wondrous-unique. A beautiful children's picture book about diversity and our wonderful world from award-winning author Maxine Beneba Clarke and illustrator Isobel Knowles.