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Pre-K & Kindergarten School Success Tips for Parents & Teachers
Raise confident, motivated, ready for school success kids!
A Place for Parents, Teachers & Kids
A beautiful read-aloud for navigating grief together.
PreOrder NOw - Loss is hard. This story helps.
A heart-healing book for children—
and the grown-ups who love them.
"Together, they combined a mother’s passion for education with a son’s artistic imagination to create a story that comforts and teaches."
Megg Waddell, School Psychologist
NEW Release!
PARENTING WITH A TEACHER'S TOOLBOX
Transform your parenting with joyful strategies that turn everyday moments into learning adventures. From magical story time to sparking curiosity, this book equips you with fun tools to help your child thrive. Click below for book summary. Purchase in Dilly's Bookstore, & everywhere books are sold. Paper & audiobook
Embrace the A, B, and C's of Teaching
To New Beginnings
Celebrate New Teacher Graduates! To New Beginnings is a thoughtful alternative to a traditional greeting card. Discover bite-sized practical advice, heartwarming anecdotes, thought-provoking quotes, and Kid Quotes journal pages, all crafted to guide new teachers through the maze of their first year of teaching.
Boxed Set now available!
Three DELUXE personalized and autographed hardcover books in a box! Gift this delightful rhyming adventure series to your favorite little ones today.
Weekly Kindergarten Pre-Reading Success Tip For Parents
Write and Read
Sending postcards to family and friends is a perfect activity for young children to practice writing their name, a few words, or a picture. They will feel a sense of accomplishment and stay connected!
Welcome to Holly's Journey!
Holly DiBella-McCarthy is a former special education teacher, school administrator, and University professor. She is currently writing and coaching full-time.
Holly’s children’s books are written to make learning fun for children and the adults who read to them. Her award-winning books for children include Dilly Duck Plays All Day, Dilly Duck Plans a Parade, and Dilly Duck Saves the Day. She has also published a Level One Reader: Dilly and Friends See Me Read. COMING SOON: The Best Letter Club: When Consonants and Vowels Unite
Holly creates STRETCH Resource Guides, as well as Coloring Book Editions, matched to picture books. She offers creation and coaching services to authors wishing to produce the same.
Holly's passions are education and advocacy, and she continues to support parents and teachers through Raising Kindergarten Ready Kids, FREE resources &Blog.
Holly enjoys adult collaboration. In addition to working with children’s book authors, she coaches teacher graduates in successful interviewing, and year-one success strategies. Her Gift Book, TO NEW BEGINNINGS for Year One teachers is a perfect Graduation Gift. Holly also teaches Book Folding for Beginners classes and has several published books and pattern kits on the subject, including Book Folding for Beginners and More Book Folding for Beginners.
Dilly Duck Picture Books Teach!
On the bank of a great big lake, in a park called Wonder Wake, Dilly Duck sits all alone, so sad and bored on her own. There is just one thing to do. Find her friends, her flock, her crew!
DILLY DUCK PLAYS ALL DAY is a rhyming picture book written to expand pre-reading skills, math skills, and emotional vocabulary for children ages 2-6.
DILLY DUCK PLANS a PARADE, the second book in the series, matches the Kindergarten curriculum teaching compassion for people with hidden disabilities, color words, and the five senses. When the ducks ask for help to find color from around the lake for their color parade, Dilly Duck convinces her beaver friend to join the crew. How will Billy Beaver be able to help when the only color he can see is brown?
DILLY DUCK SAVES THE DAY A Quacky Adventure in Eco-Friendly Problem Solving and Teamwork - Perfect Earth Day Read-Aloud!
Donating Books to Title 1 schools
We donate Dilly Duck & Friends books to children in Title 1 schools and Hospitals! For every 10 hardcover books ordered from this site, one new Dilly Duck book will be placed in a Little Green Library to spread joy and education to children globally.