In episode 258 of the Your Kid’s Next Read podcast:
10 minutes with Maxine Beneba Clarke
Allison chats to award-winning (and awe-inspiring) author Maxine Beneba Clarke about her new junior verse novel ‘Sagittarius Rising’, finding ideas everywhere, and the power and the playfulness of words.
Books we mention
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‘Dear Humans, We Stole Your Crayon!’ by Anna McGregor
‘Hooray for PJ Day’ by Sharna Carter. illustrated by Judi Abbot
‘Find Me In the Forest’ by Jess McGeachin
‘The Sinking Ruins’ (Oceanforged #3) by Amelia Mellor
‘Kev and Trev 3: Snot Cool Snow Stories’ by Kylie Howarth
‘Heroes’ (Wylah The Koorie Warrior #5) by Jordan Gould and Richard Pritchard
10 minutes with Maxine Beneba Clarke
About Maxine Beneba Clarke
Maxine Beneba Clarke is the author of many books for adults and children, including the ABIA and Indie award-winning short fiction collection Foreign Soil, the critically acclaimed bestselling memoir The Hate Race, the self-illustrated picture book When We Say Black Lives Matter, which was longlisted for the UK’s Kate Greenaway medal, and the CBCA Honour Book The Patchwork Bike (illustrated by Van T Rudd), which won the 2019 Boston Globe Horn Prize for Best Picture Book.
Her poetry collections include Carrying the World, which won the 2017 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry, How Decent Folk Behave, and It’s the Sound of the Thing: 100 new poems for young people, which won the 2024 ABIA for Book of the Year for Younger Readers.
Maxine is the inaugural Peter Steele Poet in Residence at the University of Melbourne.
About ‘Sagittarius Rising’
From multi-award-winning author and poet Maxine Beneba Clarke, comes a new chapter book full of delicous rhyme and doggy goodness!
sagittarius rising noun: 1 one of twelve rising star signs of the zodiac 2 a very cheeky puppy
Tip has found a puppy in a basket outside the neighbourhood markets! Dad doesn’t want to keep it, but Tip is determined to convince him.
Soon the tiny puppy has turned into a cheerful, bounding, messy, disobedient dog named Sagittarius Rising. And Tip’s life is packed with more adventure than could ever have been imagined!
Written in fun, bouncy rhyming couplets and filled with the wonder and mayhem of childhood, pets and family life, Sagittarius Rising is a brand-new chapter book from award-winning writer and poet Maxine Beneba Clarke and bestselling illustrator Jade Goodwin.
Other books we mention
‘It’s The Sound of the Thing: 100 new poems for young people’ by Maxine Beneba Clarke
‘Stuff I’m (Not) Sorry For: 99 more poems for young people’ by Maxine Beneba Clarke
‘We Know A Place’ by Maxine Beneba Clarke
‘When We Say Black Lives Matter’ by Maxine Beneba Clarke
‘Fashionista’ by Maxine Beneba Clarke
’11 Words For Love’ by Randa Abdel-Fattah, illustrated by Maxine Beneba Clarke
Maxine’s book recommendation
(Listen to Sandy read the first chapter here.)
Other episodes you might like
Episode 219: 10 minutes with Kim Rackham
Episode 205: 10 minutes with Julia Lawrinson
Episode 154: All About Verse Novels
Episode 51: Poetry Books for Kids
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