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.