Beware the Dragon and the Nozzlewock: A Graphic Novel Poetry Collection Full of Surprising Characters!

Perfect for fans of Jack Prelutsky and Shel Silverstein, award-winning author Vikram Madan's new poetry collection features delicious vocabulary, hilarious poems, and a full-color graphic novel format!

Vikram Madan packs this whimsical poetry collection with surprise twist after surprise twist and a host of unusual characters. In these pages, you'll meet ghost guppies (and the brave girl who creates them), Stan the Slouching Man(TM) who'll teach you blackbelt slouching, oozing dinosaurs called squishosaurs, a suspicious dragon, and the Nozzlewock (a nose with super-vacuum strength), among many other memorable heroes. Recurring characters and subplots in the art weave the poems together, adding to the merriment. This quirky collection in full-color graphic novel format begs to be read over and over again.

Author: Vikram Madan
Publisher: Wordsong
Published: 11/12/2024
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781635928174
Audience: Ages 9-12


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2024
School Library Journal 10/01/2024 pg. 94
Booklist 11/01/2024 pg. 52
BookPage 12/01/2024
Horn Book Magazine 01/01/2025 pg. 97

About the Author
Vikram Madan grew up in India and spent many years working in the tech industry before deciding to write and illustrate humorous poetry books. His titles include many self-published books of funny poems and his trade debut with Wordsong, A Hatful of Dragons and More Than 13.8 Billion Other Funny Poems, which earned numerous honors. He also received a 2023 Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Award for Owl and Penguin.