![]() It was an arm that seemed to be reaching desperately out of the fence, and above it was the word refugee scrawled on cardboard. One of the installations, for example, was attached to a wire fence. But quite serendipitously, while walking around my diverse, vibrant neighborhood in Melbourne, Australia, I started seeing these street installations that appeared to have been created by the same person. Maxine Beneba Clarke (text), Van T Rudd (illus.), The Patchwork Bike, Hachette,, 32pp., 26. The Patchwork Bike provides readers with an opportunity to learn about life in a village of Africa. When it was completed, I had this question of, Who am I going to get to illustrate this story? I didn’t really have an illustration style in mind or even a palette. What I wanted to do was lift out this subplot and turn it into a picture book. So over the course of six months I worked on the manuscript that would become The Patchwork Bike. Gather the students around you so that they are able to see. ![]() ![]() This child and his siblings absolutely adore this bike, and it becomes kind of a thread through the story. The first story in that collection contains a subplot about a small child riding around on a bike made out of scrap parts. This book came to fruition through my short-fiction collection Foreign Soil. ![]()
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