Mr Dilly Meets

Virtual Author Event: Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre with Jonathan Humble

Mr Dilly Meets award-winning author of Mortal Engines Philip Reeve and illustrator Sarah McIntyre for this free virtual author event for primary schools. Featuring author interviews, author readings, a classroom drawalong and classroom adventure quiz, plus children’s poetry from Jonathan Humble. An online author event for inspiring creativity in children (6-12 yrs) everywhere!

VIDEO CHAPTERS
(video chapter links will play on YouTube)
3:58 Philip Reeve Interview with mr Dilly
10:56 Philip Reeve answers your questions
18:43 Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild reading with Philip Reeve
26:10 Dilly's Doodles - school artwork
28:06 Sarah McIntyre Interview with Mr Dilly
32:37 Sarah McIntyre answers your questions
40:13 Adventure Mice classroom drawalong with Sarah McIntyre
47:35 Mr Dilly's Poetry Picks - children’s poetry with Jonathan Humble from the Dirigible Balloon
54:06 Adventure Mice:Otter Chaos interview with Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre
56:52 Adventure Mice:Otter Chaos reading
1:00:38 Join in 'Adventure & Animals Book Quiz' - classroom quiz with Philip and Sarah

PHILIP REEVE
Philip Reeve is the best-selling and award-winning author of the fantastically successful Mortal Engines series, which was winner of the Nestle Smarties Book Prize and Blue Peter Book Award, and made into a blockbuster film. Mr Dilly interviews Philip, who talks about and reads from the latest in his Utterly Dark series, the breathtaking Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild, an entrancing novel full of mystery, nature, magic and friendship.

SARAH McINTYRE
Meet illustrator and author, the brilliant Sarah McIntyre. Sarah answers some of your questions before her interactive classroom Adventure Mice drawalong. Adventure Mice:Otter Chaos is her delightful new book with Philip Reeve, a tale of friendship, fun and adventure! Together Philip and Sarah give us a reading, tell us a bit more about working together, and then you can join in with them for an interactive Animals and Adventure Classroom Quiz!

JONATHAN HUMBLE
PLUS on this month's Mr Dilly's Poetry Picks, highlighting children’s poems and poetry, it's Mr Dilly Meets favourite Jonathan Humble from The Dirigible Balloon children's poetry website. Jonathan will be reading a couple of poems and talking about his new children's poetry anthology Chasing Clouds.