The Lively Times of Dill, Will and Toucan Bill and Their Irresistible Friends

Dill, Will and Toucan Bill cannot stay still. Under the leadership of the plucky smart squirrel Dill, Will the playwrite and Toucan Bill the healing bird from Brazil, join to make big ideas come to life. Their Lively Times start when they write to the Queen of England inviting themselves to tea in Buckingham palace.  Eating cucumber sandwiches in a fancy palace inspires the three to open a restaurant in a big Elm tree in Central Park in New York City where they live. Soon they are entertaining neighbors that include charming bears, polite raccoons, and sweet turtles.  They also make a friend of the lonesome little boy Fred. Then Dill decides to create The People’s Free Library in Central Park so that she can educate herself through reading.  Soon all their irresistible friends and Fred are studiously reading.  The reputation of The People’s Free Library spreads far and wide.  The king of Ranastan, in faraway Asia, invites Dill and Will and Toucan Bill to set up a boat library that will float throughout his river kingdom to provide books to all citizens.

Throughout their adventures, Dill is always ready for a picnic with a hamper of sandwiches to share. She is always glad to open her world geography book so that she can teach new and old friends about their world.

The Lively Times of Dill, Will and Toucan Bill and Their Irresistible Friends is a story of courage, creativity, and resolve. It celebrates friendship, diversity, good work, openness, and the power of reading. So keep your imagination polished. Read and enjoy this delightful romp through the bright and friendly world our characters invent.

The Uncanny Adventures of Dill, Will and Toucan Bill

“The Uncanny Adventures of Dill, Will and Toucan Bill” tells the story of three winsome characters who travel around the globe and even up to the cosmos to discover the marvels of the world. Dill is a pretty, perky squirrel with a gorgeous furry tale who regularly consults her world geography book to find destinations that interest her. Her neighbor in Central Park, in New York City, is Will, who is the Will of Shakespeare. He also enjoys travel and the opportunity it provides to find material for new plays. On a trip to Brazil, Dill and Will meet Toucan Bill. He is a happy boisterous healing bird who can’t bear to lose their companionship and so he returns with them to live in Central Park. There, as a big bird needing a big nest, he joins eight Red-Tailed Hawks in their luxurious pad high on a 5th Avenue building facing Central Park. 

The trio make their journeys with the beautiful diaphanous cloud called Carla. She expertly navigates across and around all kinds of earthly landscapes and even flies our touring trio to the Big Dipper, as well as to Siberia and Samarkand and other exotic places.

The story is fun and fanciful and full of odd surprises. That the characters themselves are an odd bunch stretches the imagination in a delightful way. The story expands the horizons of readers and is a reminder that travel opens the mind and heart to unmatchable experiences.