A Hatful of Dragons: And More Than 13.8 Billion other Funny Poems (Hardcover)

Author and Illustrator: Vikram Madan

Publisher: Wordsong (2020)

For ages 7-10

This funny poetry book is chock full 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.

“The word that best describes this book rhymes with ‘bilarious.’”

–Adam Rex
 
“With rigorous rhythm and rollicking rhyme, Vikram Madan's A Hatful of Dragons delivers a vatful of laughs!” 

–Douglas Florian