![]() ![]() Kids will love picking out the familiar objects used in the bike, and parents will sympathize with the “fed-up mum” coping with all that energy. On recycled cardboard with richly hued acrylics and visible brushstrokes, Rudd’s striking illustrations are a joyful celebration of play and children’s imaginations overriding poverty or circumstances. This is street-artist Rudd’s first picture book, and his bold, strong illustrations brilliantly extend the sense of motion, with wide rippling streaks of thick paint flowing across the pages. ![]() The shicketty-shakes and winketty-wonks amplify the fun of the language and make the book a joy to read aloud. Clarke’s exuberant poetic text combines simple sentences with evocative onomatopoeia. ![]() In an unnamed village on the edge of a “no-go desert,” a little girl with beautiful cornrows confides in readers about how she and her rowdy brothers spend their time sliding, jumping, and climbing under the “stretching-out sky.” But the best thing is their bike, a cobbled-together creation of found parts, like a dented car seat, tin-can handles, and a bark license plate that keeps falling off. Kids make their own fun wherever they are, and Clarke’s The Patchwork Bike is an ode to this universal truth of childhood. ![]()
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