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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Hard to imagine that, once upon a time, a president could write poetry…

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

An important message from Rudolph!

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

A recent painting “Sugarbowl, with Sweet Ghost” part of my ‘Haunted Still-Life” series.

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Thank you everyone who stopped by my ‘open studio’ this weekend. (And by everyone I mean you Mark, thank you for being the one person who took the time to stop by 🙏🏽😂🤣😂😂)

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Upcoming studio opening for anyone who wants to see my art in person.

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

🥲30 years ago I programmed my own version of Tetris to teach myself Visual Basic. Turns out that for 30 years, my dad (now 90) has been playing this game twice a day, every day, without fail. Talk about supporting your kid - at this point he is the only person in the world still playing this game!😮🥲

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Now why do I feel like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was talking to YOU about reading MY poetry book??!? 🤣😂🤣 Hope you’ll add the beauty of your voice to my rhyme!🙏💚📖

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Hey everyone, can I ask you for a favor? My #Jazz #Clarinetist daughter (Earshot’s Emerging Artist of the Year) just released one of her original compositions, titled HoneyCrisp, on all streaming platforms. Would you be so kind as to give it a listen and help boost it?🙏🙏💚🎶🙏🤗 linktr.ee/jahnvimadan

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Support your local indie on #IndependentBookstoreDay Art by Nicola Slater from Bobo & Pup-Pup: The Funny Book

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I am pretty certain every dog-person out there will love this poem ‘Ghost Puppy’ from my #poetry book BEWARE THE DRAGON AND THE NOZZLEWOCK. Sorry this is just the beginning - the rest of the poem is in the book - go check it out for #NationalPoetryMonth 👍📖👍

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

A self-reflective poem for #NationalPoetryMonth - from my #poetry collection LORD OF THE BUBBLES.

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

A poem for #NationalPoetryMonth to help take your mind off doom-scrolling… From my funny-poetry book The Bubble Collector.

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Don’t get too steamed up during #NationalPoetryMonth - read some #poetry instead to cool down! From my #book of #funny #poems ‘The Bubble Collector’.

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Here’s a #parody #poem for #NationalPoetryMonth, with many apologies to Robert Frost. (Ok not really 😂). From my book THE BUBBLE COLLECTOR. #poetry #funnypoems

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Happy #NationalPoetryMonth - enjoy this #poem from my book THE BUBBLE COLLECTOR! #poetry #humor

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Looking for a fresh poetry book full of wacky fun for National Poetry Month? Please check out BEWARE THE DRAGON AND THE NOZZLEWOCK. For example, at one point, just like a good Bollywood movie, the cast of the book break out into a song and dance number! 😂😂😂 #kidlit

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Looking for a fresh poetry book full of eye-popping details for National Poetry Month? Please check out BEWARE THE DRAGON AND THE NOZZLEWOCK. Lots of hidden stuff to pour over and discover - e.g. somewhere on this page is the ‘Great American Novel’😉. #kidlit

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Looking for a fresh poetry book full of interconnected stories for National Poetry Month? Please check out BEWARE THE DRAGON AND THE NOZZLEWOCK. Kids will have a blast working out how the different poems end up influencing each other. #kidlit

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Looking for a fresh poetry book full of poetic forms for National Poetry Month? Please check out BEWARE THE DRAGON AND THE NOZZLEWOCK. For example, a circular poem that neatly mirrors the unending lifecycle of the Phoenix. #kidlit

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Looking for a fresh poetry book in an engaging format for National Poetry Month? Please check out BEWARE THE DRAGON AND THE NOZZLEWOCK. Kids will dig that all the poems are illustrated as comics. #kidlit

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Looking for a fresh poetry book full of WordPlay for National Poetry Month? Please check out BEWARE THE DRAGON AND THE NOZZLEWOCK. One example, a poem about Imps full of words that start with ‘imp’ - the imps literally take over the poem!

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

When all Five of your Junior Library Guild Gold Selection #Award certificates for your #books show up at the same time… #kidlit

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Thank you to @jenanbenton.bsky.social for this interview for my new poetry book, which btw is perfect for National Poetry Month.

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Just out of curiosity, does any other author/illustrator out there also get royalty statements with negative numbers on them or am I the only one?? 😮🙁 #kidlitchat

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Mamma Mia! Bobo & Pup-Pup are heading to Italy very soon! Words by me, art by Nicola Slater.

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

These are literally only *some* of the words reviewers have used to describe my book BEWARE THE DRAGON AND THE NOZZLEWOCK. Look for it at your local library (and if they don’t have it, do ask ‘em to add it to the catalog). 🙏 #funnypoetry #funnypoems #graphicnovel #dragons

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Who else here is, like me, always reading four (or more) books at the same time? PS this is an illustration from the book I am currently working on. #kidlit #bibliophile #booklovers

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Picture Book launch with Author Curtis Manley! “Grace Builds an <Almost Perfect> Dog” #kidlit #picturebook

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I just want to take a year off to read all the books I have bought but still haven’t read. 😕

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

They like my book over in Michigan! 😮😮😮

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Hooray 😮 - Zooni Tales: A Friend Till The End is shortlisted for the Michigan Great Lakes Great Books Award! 😀 Thank you award committee for picking this graphic-novel-in-rhyme. 🙏🙏🙏 #bookaward #kidlit #graphicnovel #poetryforkids

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Hello #teachers and #librarians, here are 4 funny books of #poems you can use to engage kids during #NationalPoetryMonth. Free educational guides are available on my website. I also do virtual and in-person school visits. #poetryforkids #kidlit

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Stefan Karlsson @stefankarlsson.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

This #kidlit poem by the great Jack Prelutsky feels eerily similar to what we’re now witnessing on a daily basis… 👀 #poetry #poetryforkids

We’re Know-Nothing Neebies
By Jack Prelutsky
From his book Something Big Has Been Here

We’re Know-nothing Neebies
with nothing to say,
and certain to say it
without a delay,
we’re perfectly pompous,
indelibly dense,
we haven’t a trace
of a semblance of sense.

We’re Know-nothing Neebies,
complacent and proud,
the things we don’t know
we proclaim very loud,
from summer to winter,
from spring until fall,
we daily display
we know nothing at all.

We’re Know-nothing Neebies,
invincibly vain,
distinguished by pates
with no space for a brain,
you cannot avoid us,
we’ve never been rare,
just look all around you,
we’re found everywhere.

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Kristin Varner @kristinvarner.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Got a chance to visit Saltwater Bookshop in Kingston,WA today. Happy to see Dog Trouble among friends, and finally got my grubby hands on @artbyvikram.bsky.social new book! Beware the Dragon and the Nozzlewock! There’s still a few signed copies at the store! #GraphicNovels #kidlit #childrensbooks

Dog Trouble graphic novel by Kristin Varner at Saltwater Bookshop

Signed copy of Beware the Dragon and the Nozzlewock, by Vikram Madan

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

There’s a lovely new collection of poems out this week, featuring lots of ‘Who’s Who’ poets along with one incredulous ‘ Who, Me?’ poet (i.e me 😂🤣😂) Many thanks to the anthologists Irene Latham and Charles Waters for including me in this stellar anthology. 🙏🙏🙏 #poetry #picturebook #kidlit

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Stefan Karlsson @stefankarlsson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Thoroughly enjoyed this funny & whimsical collection of #childrenspoetry by poet & artist @artbyvikram.bsky.social! I loved not only the poems but the play with the form of book—so clever & fun! #kidlit #amreading

Cover of Vikram Madan’s book of children’s poetry titled A Hatful of Dragons and More than 13.8 Billion Other Funny Poems. The cover features a child holding “a hatful of dragons”!

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Always gratifying when people take the time to leave a positive review. 🙏🙏🙏💚

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Notes like these from parents are better than any starred review a book could get. 🥰 #kidlit

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Got a nice review from Youth Services Book Reviews which is run by librarians. Have you checked out this book yet? (And if you have, might you leave a nice review online on Goodreads or Amazon🙏 - this wonderful book is hurting from a lack of reader reviews😞) #kidlit #funnybook #poetry #funnypoems

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I am designing a #Tarot card deck. Which color do you like for the back of the cards?

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

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Vikram Madan @artbyvikram.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Hooray - the American Library Association has included not one, not two, but THREE of my books in this year’s Best Graphic Novels for Kids list. Having just one book on the list is a great honor - having three leaves me speechless! 😮😮😊😮🙏 Please introduce kids to these books🙏 #KidLit #GraphicNovels

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