Description
\nIts the Sound of the Thing is anexuberant and evocative collection of poetryfor young people from Maxine Beneba Clarke, one of Australias most innovative and celebrated poets.
This extraordinary collection celebrates the joy of language and features enticing and relatable poems about everyday life the sounds of the block, the boredom of detention and the happenings in the schoolyard. Poems about candy, peanut butter and pets. Poems about a big brothers messy room, a grandfathers fading memory and a grandmothers garden magic.
Through haiku, sonnets, narrative verse, rhyming couplets, limericks, free verse, tongue-twisters and more, Maxine invites readers to fall in love with the wonder that is poetry.\n
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- Winner — Australian Book Industry Awards 2024, Book of the Year for Younger Children
- Shortlisted — Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2024
- Best Australian Children’s Books of 2023 — The Guardian
- Best of 2023 — Aussie Bookstagang
- One of Readings’ 100 Bestselling Kids amp; YA Books of 2023
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