Building Character with Dilly from A New Job For Dilly
It’s Friday! Time for my blog feature, Building Character in which you get to meet a character from a book. Talking to a character outside of their book is fun! Huge. Amounts. Of fun. This week Strands of Thought is excited to host Dilly from A New Job for Dilly. It’s so great to have you with us, Dilly. Tell us a little about yourself. My name is Dilly, and I’m a little brown rat. My favorite thing in the world is pickles. The more sour they are, they better! I was dreamt up by Rena Jones in 2007. About a year later, Vivian Zabel from 4RV Publishing offered to tell my story through three alphabet picture books. Lisa Oakman brought my original image to life. And so — here I am. In my first book, A New Job for Dilly , I didn’t like stealing pickles. Stealing is wrong, and very dangerous for a little rat like me. I decided to get a ...