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

Does poetry for kids sell? It’s an interesting question. Let’s scale it back a bit then and ask a simpler one: Does poetry for kids sell in any month other than April a.k.a. Poetry Month? Or even simpler, does anyone but teachers buy works of children’s poetry? Does anyone but teachers seek out new......more

Silly humor and weird characters abound in this collection of 25 poems from Geisel Medal winner Vikram Madan.  It includes a variety of poetic forms and features made-up creatures like the Squishosaurs and the Bad-Luck Bogeys, humans who find themselves in unfortunate situations, and legendary being......more

Reminiscent of the late great Shel Silverstein, Madan might be the Shel Silverstein of this generation. Following his previous poetry collections, “The Bubble Collector,” “ Lord of the Bubbles: And Other Funny Poems,” and A Hateful of Dragons, Madan is back with another poetry collection, Beware the......more

What a delightful book! At first I was just just enjoying these varied, rollicking, tight poems about the 'surprising characters' in the title, and appreciating the energy of the vibrant, comic-format art. But then I started noticing the storylines were weaving in and out of the poems, and character......more

This book is SO MUCH FUN!!! The poems are elaborate and have tons of interesting words, very reminiscent of the Silverstein poems that I grew up with. The illustrations help to bring meaning to the poems, and the poems are intertwined-- there will be "easter eggs" from poem to poem. For example, in......more