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"Vikram Madan is like a modern day Shel Silverstein. His books full of humor and poetry have been favorites of my own kids."
- Kazu Kibuishi, NYT Bestselling Creator of the AMULET Graphic Novel Series |
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★ "Juicy, joyful, and just right for reading aloud"
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"One of the finest, funniest poetry books you'll have encountered in a long time!"
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Coming: November 2024 - Pre-Order Now!
Beware the Dragon and the Nozzlewock: A Hilarious Graphic Novel Poetry Collection Full of Surprising Characters, written and illustrated by Vikram Madan, published by Astra/WordSong, 2024.
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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a graphic novel! It's a poetry collection! It's a ... HILARIOUS 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 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. If you enjoyed Vikram's multiple-award-winning funny poetry book A HATFUL OF DRAGONS (which appeared on Seven Best-Book-of-the-Year lists) you will LOVE LOVE LOVE this book, which not only clocks in at twice the number of pages (128), but it is also illustrated in FULL COLOR and features tales told in graphic novel format, sure to lure in poetry lovers, graphic novel fans, and kids and adults new to poetry. Did we already say this book is FUNNY? Yes, laugh-out-loud LOL funny! Releases November 12, 2024 but you can preorder it now from your favorite bookstore and from the links on this official book page. Pre-orders are essential for the success of a book. In addition to bringing the book to the attention of booksellers and retailers, all preorders count as first day sales, so preorders propel the book onto sales lists and to the attention of booksellers, readers, reviewers, librarians and teachers. Your pre-order of the book would be most humbly appreciated. The book can be pre-ordered from any bookstore or online using these Pre-order links. If you can pre-order this book ahead of release, that would be much much much deeply appreciated. Many, many Thanks!:) Signed copies may be pre-ordered from Island Books or Brick and Mortar Books. |
What Booksellers Are Saying:
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"I enjoyed this sharp, snarky collection of illustrated poems that feel familiar (think Poe, Carroll) but have a charm all their own. I'm a sucker for poetry parodies that have good meter, and throw in unexpected vocabulary like causality and palpitated, and I'm hooked."
- Books Inc. San Leandro, California "A brilliant collection of illustrated poetry with a narrative arc that will have readers of all ages turning pages to find out what happens with the Nozzlewock!" - Island Books Mercer Island, Washington |
"If Hitchhiker's Guide was a poetry book for children... This quirky and adorable book is more than a poetry anthology, it is also a graphic novel full of wacky characters whose surreal stories intersect as the poems go on. Read once for the vibes, then again and again as you hunt for all the references not only to other poems in this book, but beloved classics like Jabberwocky (referenced by the eponymous Nozzlewock I) or Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Deep, Dark, and Lovely). Whether you are reading it to yourself, to your family, or to your classroom, Beware the Dragon and the Nozzlewock is sure to make your audience laugh."
- Book Ends Bookstore Winchester, Massachusetts |
Okay, okay, so everyone wants to know: What the heck is a 'GRAPHIC NOVEL POETRY COLLECTION'?
Short answer: A poetry collection (full of funny poems like those of Shel Silverstein and Jack Prelutsky), but the tales are visual and told in a comic format.
Most poetry collections just have 'spot' illustrations, which are one-off humorous drawings that supplement the poem, but aren't essential to reading or enjoying the poem. In this collection the visuals are an integral part of the experience. While you could enjoy the poem by itself without any visuals, the experience is magnified a hundred-fold with visual story-telling and humor, thus creating a full sensory multimodal experience for the reader
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In other words, very very fun to read and tremendously more fun to look at! To make it even more interesting, details sprinkled throughout the book cross-connect the poems and narratives to each other. The eagle-eyed reader will have a lot of fun finding all the connections.
Here are some example spreads from the book (click on images to view):
Short answer: A poetry collection (full of funny poems like those of Shel Silverstein and Jack Prelutsky), but the tales are visual and told in a comic format.
Most poetry collections just have 'spot' illustrations, which are one-off humorous drawings that supplement the poem, but aren't essential to reading or enjoying the poem. In this collection the visuals are an integral part of the experience. While you could enjoy the poem by itself without any visuals, the experience is magnified a hundred-fold with visual story-telling and humor, thus creating a full sensory multimodal experience for the reader
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In other words, very very fun to read and tremendously more fun to look at! To make it even more interesting, details sprinkled throughout the book cross-connect the poems and narratives to each other. The eagle-eyed reader will have a lot of fun finding all the connections.
Here are some example spreads from the book (click on images to view):
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Here's how the Editorial Director at WordSong (the publisher of this book) introduces the book:
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PSST: While you are waiting for this book to come out, you can read all of Vikram's other poetry collections, available from bookstores and libraries everywhere. (And if they are not available at your local book source, just ask them to get it for you).
Keywords: Funny Poems, Poetry, Humorous Poetry, Graphic Novel, Comics, Poems, Poetry for Kids, Children's Poetry, Dragon, Nozzlewock, Shel Silverstein, Jack Prelutsky, Ogden Nash, Dorothy Parker, Sequential Art, Cartoon, Whimsical, Humor, Books for Kids.