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

A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year
Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
Finalist, 2025 Washington State Book Award for Books for Young Readers
Evanston Public Library 101 Great Books for Kids
★ Kirkus Reviews, starred review
★ The Horn Book, starred review

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: 1.00lbs
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
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2025 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style

About the Author
Vikram Madan grew up in India where, despite spending his childhood rhyming and doodling, he ended up an engineer. After many years of tech work, he followed his heart back to being creative and is now the author/illustrator of over a dozen books, including the Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor winning OWL & PENGUIN series, the acclaimed funny poetry collections BEWARE THE DRAGON AND THE NOZZLEOWOCK, A HATFUL OF DRAGONS, THE BUBBLE COLLECTOR, and LORD OF THE BUBBLES, the early reader chapter series BOBO & PUP-PUP, and the graphic-novel-in-rhyme series ZOONI TALES. His books have been honored by Kirkus Reviews, American Library Association, Junior Library Guild, New York Public Library, Bank Street College of Education, School Library Journal blogs, and others, and have appeared on multiple Best Books of the Years lists.