Greetings, Earthlings!

After fifteen years of writing, performing and recording music (whilst doing a series of jobs from job centre interviewer to recruitment consultant), James went off to Reading University to do a B.Ed degree in primary education and an MA in children's literature.

Now a prize-winning poet and guitarist, James gives lively, high-energy poetry performances with the express intention of captivating and motivating young writers. The author of nine popular children's poetry titles, James' latest title published by Macmillan Children's Books Journey to the Centre of My Brain is a collection of poems for children packed with gorgeous thoughts, dreams and moments as he takes us on a trip to space, introduces us to tigers, mammoths, clouds and bugs and much more. James Carter lives in Wallingford with his four guitars, three ukuleles, two daughters and one wife.