I'm a little alien! - James Carter

Rush rocket

roar rocket

zip about some more rocket

let me climb aboard rocket

ZIM ZAM ZOOM

Zoom around this book to find aliens, stars and a greedy robot - as well as funny faces and a ball that won't bounce back! This is a fun and playful new collection by an award-winning poet who knows how to inspire and delight very young children.

James Carter is a prize-winning poet and guitarist. He travels all over the UK and abroad to give lively poetry performances and workshops - in schools, libraries and at literary festivals. His poetry titles include Cars Stars Electric Guitars and Orange Silver Sausage (Walker Books) and Time-Travelling Underpants and Greetings, Earthlings! (Macmillan). James was the major contributor to the recent Cbeebies TV series Poetry Pie. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Wallingford, Oxfordshire.

'As I read through this book I could clearly picture a group of children, sat upon the classroom carpet at storytime, laughing, clapping and joining in. It's full of references to those things that loom large in the life of an infant - wobbly teeth, aliens, mini beasts, space rockets and playtime. There are group poems, poems to dance to, poems to shout and poems to sing. It's a lovely collection of easy but not always simple rhymes, many of which will definitely become favourites with the younger children they have been written for.'

'it's a book based around the imaginative life of the smallest children, with poems about the subjects that you'd expect – animals, friends and holidays – but also poems that make you want to move about or chant or sing that are about all sorts of other things (it's catching). These are short, simple, inviting and memorable poems which celebrate the wonder, variety and possibility of the world. Full of rhythm and rhyme, written to be read aloud, these are poems that children will love to listen to, to chant along with and that will inspire them to make up their own …It's the work of a poet who knows his audience well and never talks down to them.'

‘This collection is an exciting trip around space for young readers. Zoom around this book to find aliens, stars and a greedy robot - as well as funny faces and a ball that won't bounce back! James Carter is an award-winning poet who knows just what children want - and space is always popular.'