**BEST CHILDREN'S BOOK WINNER–Florida and Southern California Book Festivals–2018**

The Dilby R. Dixon’s series follows a young boy named Dilby who deals with bullying and social awkwardness in elementary school and into junior high. Through his troubled and lonely years in school, Dilby realizes he’s not just an average boy. From his wild imagination and dreams, Dilby discovers that he has a special gift that allows him to travel to any world that he creates in his dreams, worlds that are real and only exist to people like Dilby. They call themselves Time Dreamers, and it’s what Dilby was born to be.

As Dilby begins to explore his gifts, he will learn that his ability to time dream is more than just traveling to different worlds. His dreams will begin to teach him things about himself and more importantly they will show him who he really is and what he can really be. Dilby will become someone he thought he could never be and do things he never thought possible. Take  the fantasy adventure and follow Dilby on his quest of self-discovery where he will emerge a hero and use his powers to change the world.

The Time Dreamer isn't just full of heroism, adventure, and magical worlds, it's what Dilby was born to be. The second book in the Dilby R. Dixon's series presents Dilby with all new challenges to face. Dilby already knows he's someone special having stood up to Riley Rogers, the school bully. He has also created The Dilbonary, a secret journal of weird words, traveled to many amazing worlds bringing back souvenirs, and he's finally become a cool kid. Now Dilby will be brought to the ultimate world, to a city called Riseanfall, where all time dreamers go. In Riseanfall, Dilby will learn the truth of who he really is and what he can do with the special gifts he has been given. He will encounter a new cast of characters and a dog named Hopper who will help guide him on his journey of being a time dreamer. With new friends both at home and in Riseanfall, it's hard for Dilby to know who he can trust. But when Dilby's time at Goodwin Elementary school comes to an end at the height of his popularity, the Dilbonary gets stolen. Forced to confront another bully, Dilby enlists the help of his friends, Grace and George, as they devise a plan to do something drastic to get it back. Then, just before summer ends, Dilby's dog, Hopper, goes missing. After finding a surprising clue, Dilby sets out on a mission back to Riseanfall where he'll need more than just bravery and courage to get Hopper back and track down the person who took him.

Tony J. Perri was born and raised in Mesa, Arizona. With a love for writing, movies and the arts, he set out and got his Associates of Arts degree in graphic design after graduating high school. A few years later he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his passion of graphic design in the film industry. But his fate took a turn and he soon found himself on a different path where for the next fifteen years he worked in the costume department on various films and television shows. His love for writing never went away and he soon found himself writing screenplays and eventually went on to co-write and co-direct an award winning independent film, a short film and documentary. He ended his fifteen year run in Los Angeles working in the costume department for six seasons on the hit television show, Sons of Anarchy, He is married with twin girls and two dogs who run the house and lives back in Arizona where he writes full time.

The DIlby R. Dixon's book series is his first endeavor in writing children's book, which was inspired by his daughters. 

You can follow him on social media at: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter and visit his author website at www.verticalturtlepublishing.com.