About the Author: Alex Wharton

Alex Wharton is an award-winning writer and performer of poetry for adults and children. His first book of poetry for children, Daydreams and Jellybeans, was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year award 2022, The North Somerset Teacher’s Book Awards, The Laugh Out Loud Book Awards and was named as a National Poetry Day Recommended Read. In 2021 Alex was commissioned by Hay Festival to create a poem with primary students to be read to Her Royal Highness, Queen Consort at a ceremony held in Hay-On-Wye. Alex’s second and third collections of poetry, Poems for Brilliant Brains and Red Sky at Night: A Poet’s Delight will be published with Firefly Press in 2023 and 2024, respectively.