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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books
  • First Book:
    January 2017
  • Latest Book:
    September 2023
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Book List in Order: 9 titles



  • From a new voice in international fiction, a prize-winning collection of stories that cross the world -- Africa, London, the West Indies, Australia -- and express the global experience “with exquisite sensitivity” (Dave Eggers, author of The Circ...





  • In The Best Australian Stories, acclaimed writer Maxine Beneba Clarke brings together our country’s leading literary talents. Herself an award-winning short-story writer, Beneba Clarke selects exceptional stories that resonate with experience and t...



  • 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, yo...





  • Difference is everywhere, just look and see. This whole-wide-big-world is wondrous-unique.

    A gorgeous picture book about our diverse and wonderful world from award-winning author Maxine Beneba Clarke and illustrator Isobel Knowles.



  • In a powerful, poetic missive, award-winning author-illustrator Maxine Beneba Clarke celebrates the meaning behind the words Black Lives Matter. Little one, when we say Black Lives Matter, we’re saying Black people are wonderful-strong. That we des...



  • Crackling with energy and flair, this stylish book from Maxine Beneba Clarke -- author of The Patchwork Bike and creator of When We Say Black Lives Matter -- is all about the power of self-expression. Put on your PASSION. Wear your HEART on your slee...



  • 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 kno...





Award-Winning Books by Maxine Beneba Clarke

The Patchwork Bike
2019 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award -- Picture Book


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Maxine Beneba Clarke has published 9 books.

Maxine Beneba Clarke does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, We Know a Place, was published in September 2023.

The first book by Maxine Beneba Clarke, Foreign Soil: And Other Stories, was published in January 2017.

No. Maxine Beneba Clarke does not write books in series.