Its the Sound of the Thing

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It's the Sound of the Thing is an exuberant and evocative collection of poetry for young people from Maxine Beneba Clarke, one of Australia's 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 brother's messy room, a grandfather's fading memory and a grandmother's 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.

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 & YA Books of 2023

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781761212123
Published: June 2023

Number of pages: 208
Width: 128 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: not specified

Publisher: Hardie Grant Children's Publishing