Beware the Dragon and the Nozzlewock

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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 collection with whimsical stories told in rhyme, 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™ 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.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.CN

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