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.

About the Author

Maxine Beneba Clarke is the author of over fourteen 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.