A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month May 2024
Welsh Children’s Laureate Alex Wharton’s third collection of poems is a delightful celebration and introduction to the natural world.
Alex Wharton has always used his poems to capture the special details of the plants and animals which are all around us but which are often overlooked. Here he revels in the rather disgusting characteristics of Mr Slime who he introduces for the first time as well as bringing back Hector the Horrible Hedgehog, whose horrible ways continue to haunt the poet as a ghost!
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All is still on poetry hill;
the poet doesn’t speak.
He piles his thoughts into
a heap and slips into
his dreams.
A third collection of funny and thoughtful poems from the Children's Laureate Wales, Alex Wharton, aimed at developing a love of language and self-expression.
Readers will be excited by fun new characters like Mr Slime and the return of Hector the Horrible Hedgehog from first collection Daydreams and Jellybeans, as well as being introduced to powerful and moving poems such as 'Young Oak', 'The Long Way Home', and 'For a Quiet Day'.
Superbly illustrated throughout by Ian Morris.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Red Sky at Night; Poet's Delight and determined it is suitable for children aged 7-10 years old
Red Sky at Night; Poet's Delight features in the following genres: Featured Books for 7+ readers, Featured Books for 9+ readers, Julia Eccleshare's Picks of the Month, Recommendations, Funny, Poetry Books for Children, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Children’s / Teenage poetry, anthologies, annuals
Red Sky at Night; Poet's Delight is available in Paperback
Red Sky at Night; Poet's Delight was written by Alex Wharton and published by Firefly Press Ltd
Red Sky at Night; Poet's Delight has 63 pages
£7.19
