Red Sky at Night, Poet's Delight. This item is unavailable.Red Sky at Night, Poet's Delight

Longlisted for the Jhalak Children’s & YA Prize 2025

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'.M/p>

Superbly illustrated throughout by Ian Morris.

Alex Wharton is an award-winning poet, writer, author and performer, and the Children's Laureate Wales 2023 - 2025. This is his third collection of poetry written for children. His first collection, Daydreams and Jellybeans (Firefly Press), was published in 2020, and was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year and the Lollies Laugh-out-Loud Poetry Book Award. His second collection, a poetry 'how-to' book for children, Doughnuts, Thieves and Chimpanzees (Firefly Press), was published in October 2023.