An important message from Rudolph!

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

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 🙏🏽😂🤣😂😂)

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

🥲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!😮🥲

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!🙏💚📖

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

Get your summer reading ready!

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

Is this readable?

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 👍📖👍

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

Thank you @thehornbook.bsky.social 🙏🙏🙏

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

They like my book over in Michigan! 😮😮😮

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

Hello #KitlitArtPostcard

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

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

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

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

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

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

Some of you might be curious to see the inside of the sausage, I mean, the creative process behind how I came up with the concepts behind my latest poetry book www.vikrammadan.com/blog/nozzlew... #kidlit #poetrybook #funnypoems #creativeprocess

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

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

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

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

Today’s small win…

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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Ha, all 5 of my Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Certificates and pins (for my Owl and Penguin books and Zooni Tales books) showed up all together! #kidlit