Join Mr Dilly live, free and direct for an inspirational and creativity fun-packed event perfect for schools, children and curious minds everywhere to learn more about climate change, nature, and how to look after the environment with a whole host of brilliant children's authors! Perfect for KS2+.

Meet and put your questions to...

BEN MARTYNOGA - Rewild: Can Nature Heal Our World?
MO O'HARA - Honey Hive: Bee a Friend (NB - Mo O'Hara is pre-recorded)
JENNIFER N.R. SMITH - Bang: The Wild Wonders of Earth's Phenomena

PHILIP KAVVADIAS - Mission Microraptor
CATHERINE BARR - Wildfire Crossings Honey Hive: Bee a Friend (NB - Catherine Barr is pre-recorded)

NICOLA PENFOLD - When the Wild Calls
PIPPA PIXLEY - Make Art with Nature

Mr Dilly Meets - Tom Mitchell, Nansubuga Nagadaya, Lorraine Gregory, Yasmine Naghdi and Chitra Soundar. FREE LIVE STREAM EVENT . Watch live or catch-up on-demand.

Join Mr Dilly beamed LIVE, FREE and DIRECT to you and learn How To Stop the end of The World with Tom Mitchell, see a Girl on the Fly with Nansubuga Nagadaya, explores interdimensional realms with Lorraine Gregory, and spin around with ballet besties and Yasmine Naghdi and Chitra Soundar.

Get ready to Laugh, Learn and Discover some inspirational fun, chat and stories in a FREE online event for schools, children and curious minds everywhere! Perfect for ages 7+.

Join Mr Dilly for this FREE and online event, beaming directly to your classroom with Mr Dilly's Ancient Civilizations series for Primary Schools - Mr Dilly's ANCIENT EGYPTIANS!

Perfect for KS2 History as a stunning starter, marvellous middle or fantastic finish, to top-up learning or just for some mayhem filled mummifying fun!

Watch Mr Dilly's Ancient Egyptians film and journey with Mr Dilly as your guide you into the grim and ghastly, weird and wonderful world of the Ancient Egyptians. Meet a host of wonderful characters speaking directly to you from disgruntled Burt the Pyramid Builder, talking all about the building of the Great Pyramid, to the outrageous Eddie the Embalmer extracting organs from his latest mummy, and learn about the origins of paper join with Egyptian rapper with MC Papa Rus!

Plus your Ancient Egyptians questions answered and join-in with a funEgyptians class quiz.

Packed full of fun, facts, laughter and learning, get ready to Laugh, Learn and Discover more with Mr Dilly!

Join Mr Dilly for chat, fun, draw-alongs, learning & laughter with authors Nadia Shireen, Bex Hogan, Alex T Smith & poet Zana Fraillon! FREE LIVE STREAM EVENT . Watch live or catch-up on-demand.

A brilliant line-up of x1 children's author, x2 children's author illustrators and x1 children's poet on Mr Dilly meets this month! Chat, readings, your questions, 2 draw-alongs, children's poetry and fun and inspiration galore! Join Mr Dilly and guests on 27th February 1.30pm for this FREE Virtual Author Event for children ,schools and curious minds everywhere! Perfect for ages 7+.

Get ready for some BIG adventure! Join Mr Dilly and best-selling author illustrator Laura Ellen Anderson, creator of the Amelia Fang and Rainbow Grey series, and discover her magical new young fiction series for children with Marnie Midnight and the Moon Mystery!

Mr Dilly Meets Laura live in her studio, chatting with Mr Dilly about Marnie Midnight, Amelia Fang and Rainbow Grey, and showing us some of her illustration techniques and top tips. Join in with some marvellous Marnie draw-alongs and listen to some exclusive readings, as we explore this fantastic new world together!

Perfect for schools and chilldren 7+.

This new year, explore new worlds with Mr Dilly and a whole host of brilliant children's authors in this fantastic free online event!

Beamed free, live and direct into your classroom or venue, Mr Dilly brings you the perfect virtual children's author event event to kick off the New Year! With best-selling authors Benjamin Dean, Sarah Driver, Pari Thomson and Anna Rainbow! Chat, readings, laughs, your questions answered and lots of learning and fun for children aged 7-12.

Join us for the Christmas Children's Author Cracker! FREE Festive Fab Fun with Mr Dilly & Guests!

Get ready for a jolly online event filled with holiday cheer! On Tue Dec 05 2023, at 11:00 AM GMT, Mr Dilly and a lineup of special guests will take you on a magical journey through the world of children's literature.

Discover enchanting stories, meet beloved characters, and dive into the joy of reading together. This festive extravaganza promises heaps of fun, laughter, and surprises for kids of all ages.

From heartwarming tales to interactive storytelling sessions, this event will ignite your child's imagination and spark their love for books. So, mark your calendars and join us online for an unforgettable experience!

MEET CHILDREN's AUTHORS...

MG LEONARD - The Ice Children

MEL TAYLOR-BESSENT - The Christmas Carrolls 3: The Christmas Competition

SOPHIE ANDERSON - The Snow Girl

NATASHA HASTINGS - The Miraculous Sweetmakers

GENEVIEVE ASPINALL - Percy the Post Penguin

KATIE KIRKBY - The Completely Chaotic Christmas of Lottie Brooks

Perfect for Primary Schools aged children Yr2+

A Christmas History Special this December as Mr Dilly's WORLD OF HISTORY presents a perfect event for schools, all children KS2 plus, those interested in WWII history, and curious minds everywhere!

Join Mr Dilly and multi award-winning children's author Tom Palmer commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the WWII Battle of North Cape, a Second World War battle that took place across Christmas1943, and immortalised in Tom's thrilling naval adventure novel Arctic Star, described by School Run as 'one of the best children's books about WWII'.

Learn about the incredible true story of the Arctic convoys! See Tom aboard HMS Belfast on the River Thames, and discover the life-threatening conditions in which the sailors lived and fought! Understand what happened on the treachorous Arctic convoys to Russia, and be amazed at HMS Belfast's role in the Battle of North Cape with the destruction of the feared German warship Scharnhorst!

The event features:

- Tom Palmer speaking from on board HMS Belfast in London

- Mr Dilly 'in-character' monologues bringing to life the characters and events from Arctic Star

- Interview with Mr Dilly and Tom Palmer

- Christmas message from King George VI

Laugh, Learn & Discover more about the world of Ancient Egypt with Mr Dilly! Watch Mr Dilly's new KS2 Egyptians film, live Q&A & class quiz!

Join Mr Dilly for this FREE and LIVE online event, beaming directly to your classroom with the first of Mr Dilly's Ancient Civilizations series for Primary Schools - Mr Dilly's ANCIENT EGYPTIANS!

Perfect for KS2 History as a stunning starter, marvellous middle or fantastic finish, to top-up learning or just for some mayhem filled mummifying fun!

Watch the new Mr Dilly Ancient Egyptians film and journey with Mr Dilly as your guide you into the grim and ghastly, weird and wonderful world of the Ancient Egyptians. Meet a host of wonderful characters speaking directly to you from disgruntled Burt the Pyramid Builder, talking all about the building of the Great Pyramid, to the outrageous Eddie the Embalmer extracting organs from his latest mummy, and learn about the origins of paper join with Egyptian rapper with MC Papa Rus!

Then put your Ancient Egyptians questions to Mr Dilly in a live Q&A, plus an Egyptians class quiz for all the pupils to join in with.

Packed full of fun, facts, laughter and learning, get ready to Laugh, Learn and Discover more with Mr Dilly!

This event is a live on-air STREAM YARD webinar and will be shown on the Mr Dilly website.

Commemorating Remembrance Day 2023 join Mr Dilly for this FREE and LIVE special event.

Hear from best-selling children's authors Phil Earle, David Farr, Hiba Noor Kahn and Tony Bradman, as Mr Dilly speaks with them about their latest war themed children’s novels; hear read-alouds from their books; put your questions to the authors, and listen in as we speak about the importance of remembrance, hope and peace. Perfect for schools and children pupils 7-12 yrs.

Mr Dilly has teamed up with independent children’s bookstore Bookwagon. All the author's books are available to purchase from Bookwagon with a 25% discount on RRP and FREE delivery. Limited time offer expires 15th December 2023. Your unique Mr Dilly Meets/Bookwagon book discount code for this event will be sent to you after registration. Please email any book sales enquiries to info@bookwagon.co.uk

This event is a live on-air STREAM YARD webinar and will be shown on the Mr Dilly website.

Get ready to READ, SCREAM, REPEAT in a perfect fun event for some KS2 spooky fun, laughter and learning!

Join Mr Dilly, Farshore Books, and some of the most exciting children's authors in books today for the first ever Mr Dilly Meets LIVE! As we bring to life READ, SCREAM, REPEAT a spine-tingling collection of spooktacular stories that will chill, thrill and delight middle-great readers!

Meet the queen of middle-grade comedy-horror, JENNIFER KILLICK (Dread Wood, Crater Lake and Alex Sparrow series), KIRSTY APPLEBAUM, (The Middler, Troo Friend, The Life and Times of Lonny Quicke), DAN SMITH (Nisha'a War, My Friend the Enemy, My Brother's Secret), and ELLE McNICOLL (A Kind of Spark, Like a Charm, Show Us Who You Are), for a live author panel and some hilarious audience participation fun and games, and the odd friendly ghost!

This Mr Dilly Meets LIVE event is filmed in front of live primary school audience and will feature an edited pre-record of the show, plus some exclusive additional spooky fun from the Read, Scream, Repeat authors and Mr Dilly!

This event is pre-recorded in front of a live primary school audience, and will be live streamed using STREAMYARD on the Mr Dilly website.

A special Mr Dilly Meets FREE virtual author visit with childen's author Helena Duggan! Join us for interviews, read-alouds, inspiration, your questions to Helena and fun as we jump into the world of The Light Thieves! Perfect for primary schools 7+.

Helena's The Light Thieves: Search for the Black Mirror is the second adventure in the gripping and mysterious eco-adventure series The Light Thieves from bestselling author of A Place Called Perfect.

Mr Dilly has teamed up with independent children’s bookstore Bookwagon. The Light Thieves and The Light Thieves: Search for the Black Mirror are available to purchase from Bookwagon with a 25% discount on RRP and FREE delivery. Limited time offer expires 28th October 2023. Your unique Mr Dilly Meets/Bookwagon book discount code for this event will be sent to you after registration. Please email any book sales enquiries to info@bookwagon.co.uk

This event is a live on-air STREAM YARD webinar and will be shown on the Mr Dilly website.

Get ready to scream! It’s the first ever MR DILLY MEETS LIVE! Brought to you in association with the brilliant bunch over at Farshore Books, and the children and staff of West Hill Primary school, Mr Dilly brings some of Britain’s best children’s writers together for a special event celebrating the creepy, spine-tingling short story collection READ, SCREAM, REPEAT.

Mr Dilly will be joined on-stage by collection curator JENNIFER KILLICK and KIRSTY APPLEBAUM, ELLE McNICOLL and DAN SMITH.

Discover carpets possessed by evil spirits, monsters lurking in lakes, flesh eating aliens and more ghostly goings-on with Mr Dilly Meets LIVE this October.

This event will be filmed and streamed free to schools to watch online at a later date.

FREE online event for National Poetry Day 2023.

This National Poetry Day sit-back and take refuge in nature, and join Mr Dilly and award-winning childen's poet Zaro Weil for the WORLD PREMIERE of the film adaption of WHEN POEMS FALL FROM THE SKY, Zaro Weil's mesmirizing, beautiful book of children's poems in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.

Get ready for a magical riot of imagination, humour, colour and joy! Dance -along to The Bug Parade, sing-along with The Fun-Guy, watch as The Wizard performs his magic in The Magic House of Seeds and discover a powerful story of hope and longing in Tree's Story and more.

Experience Zaro's wonderful words and Junli's Song's beautiful illustrations brought to life by Mr Dilly in a unique, one-of-a-kind film world premiere event to inspire, delight and bring the world of poetry to life this National Poetry Day in your school!

Mr Dilly has teamed up with independent children’s bookstore Bookwagon. When Poems Fall From the Sky is available to purchase from Bookwagon with a 25% discount on RRP and FREE delivery. Limited time offer expires 23rd September 2023. Your unique Mr Dilly Meets/Bookwagon book discount code for this event will be sent to you after registration. Please email any book sales enquiries to info@bookwagon.co.uk

This event is a live on-air STREAM YARD webinar and will be shown on the Mr Dilly website.

Mr Dilly Meets returns for the first show of the new academic year! Join Mr Dilly for a FREE Virtual Author Visit full of chat, read-alouds, laughter, learning and discovery with fantastic children's authors...

HANNAH GOLD - Finding Bear - The unmissable follow-up to the phenomenal bestselling and award-winning The Last Bear. Beautifully illustrated by Levi Pinfold.

AISLING FOWLER - Fireborn: Phoenix and the Frost Palace - The second in the thrilling new children’s adventure trilogy perfect for young readers aged 10+.

SINEAD O'HART - The Silver Road - Myth and magic combine in this stunning new fantasy adventure, drawing on Irish folklore, from award-winning author Sinéad O’Hart.

JAMES BURKS - Agent 9: Mind Control! - Your favourite feline secret agent is back for a new adventure! New threats, new foes . . . and a new partner? Agent 9 is back in action at the Super-Secret Spy Service, and it couldn't come at a better time.

AF HARROLD - Welcome to Wild Town - Do you dare to come to Wild Town? An exciting poetry adventure, a journey of wild encounters in streets, houses and parks - this is an astonishing and brilliant poetry collection by two of the UK’s most admired poets. Illustrated with verve and wit by the internationally bestselling illustrator Korky Paul.

HOLLY RIVERS - The Sundae Delivery Service - The action-packed sequel to The Boy in the Post, perfect for fans of the Adventures on Trains series!

Mr Dilly has teamed up with independent children’s bookstore Bookwagon. All the author's books are available to purchase from Bookwagon with a 25% discount on RRP and FREE delivery. Limited time offer expires 23rd September 2023. Your unique Mr Dilly Meets/Bookwagon book discount code for this event will be sent to you after registration. Please email any book sales enquiries to info@bookwagon.co.uk

This event is a live on-air STREAMYARD webinar and will be shown on the Mr Dilly website.