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A Hatful of Dragons: And More Than 13.8 Billion Other Funny Poems

by Vikram Madan (Author)

A Hatful of Dragons: And More Than 13.8 Billion Other Funny Poems
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Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
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Ideal for fans of Jack Prelutsky and Shel Silverstein, this collection of hilarious poems features delicious vocabulary and a wide range of subjects, as well as recurring characters and subplots in the art that weave the poems together and add to the merriment.

This funny poetry book is chockful of unusual characters: panda and pangolin musicians, mail-order eggs that hatch (surprise!) dinosaurs, ten aliens with a garden-gnome pal, a robot uncle, lots and lots of dragons, and a professor who uses his Page Machine to travel to multiple pages within the book. Vikram Madan's ingenious poems take many forms, from limerick to rebus to a fill-in-the-blank poem that offers more than 13.8 billion funny combinations. All feature clever wordplay, impeccable rhythm and rhyme, and riotous punchlines. This is a quirky collection of poems that readers will laugh their way through again and again.

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★ A loopily meta collection of silly, interactive poetry. Madan's collection of rhymed verse lives up to its subtitle thanks to a poem with 12 numbered blanks and 12 lists of seven words or phrases each to insert, mix-and-match style, in those blanks...that equals seven-to-the-12th-power possible poems! You do the math. There is a 'cracked-concrete' poem (some of the words have fallen to the bottom of the page), a rebus chant composed entirely of pictures of Australian animals, and some poems in comic strips. The cast appears to be of many races and species. This collection will encourage several giggle-filled read-throughs. — Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"The word that best describes this book rhymes with 'bilarious.'" — Adam Rex, author-artist of Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich

"With rigorous rhythm and rollicking rhyme, Vikram Madan's A Hatful of Dragons delivers a vatful of laughs!" — Douglas Florian, author-artist of Friends and Foes: Poems About Us All
Vikram Madan
VIKRAM MADAN, an award-winning children's book author and illustrator, is the author of the Bobo and Pup-Pup graphic chapter-book series, which includes The Funny Book, We Love Bubbles!, and Let's Make Cake! He grew up in India and spent many years working in the tech industry before coming to his senses and following his heart into the visual and literary arts, creating work that can be in turn humorous, quirky, fun, lighthearted, philosophical, thought-provoking, and sometimes all of these at the same time. When not painting and making public art, Vikram writes and illustrates humorous poetry.

NICOLA SLATER is a New York Times bestselling children's book illustrator and popcorn aficionado. She is the illustrator of Bobo and Pup-Pup graphic chapter book series, which includes The Funny Book; We Love Bubbles!; and Let's Make Cake! She has also illustrated many children's picture books and middle grade novels for various publishers, including the Little Golden Book Margaret Wise Brown's Manners. Nicola studied at Buckingham Chilterns University. You can follow her on Twitter @nicolaslater.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781684371501
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Wordsong
Publication date
March 20, 2020
Series
-
BISAC categories
JNF042010 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Poetry | Humorous
Library of Congress categories
American poetry
Children's poetry, American
Humorous poetry
Humorous poetry, American
Texas Bluebonnet Awards Master List
2021 - 2022

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