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New Children’s Book
 The latest book in the Dilo series by Horace Dobbs is now available in the Dolphin Shop. Dilo and the Isle of the Gods
Although written for children aged 5 - 11 the Dilo series is enjoyed by readers of all ages.
Foreword by Bernard Eaton
Dilo and the Isle of the Gods
Written by Horace Dobbs, illustrated by Rico
ISBN 0-9541721-3-2
Published by Star Books
Highly recommended for all lovers of dolphins and adventure.
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A lovely full colour poster of Dilo is available from the Dolphin Shop
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One of Dilo’s roles is to help us raise funds. Which is just what Charlotte Lade did. She didn’t have a Halloween Fancy Dress Party. Charlotte held a raffle and sent us this letter with a photo of herself. If you have any ideas on how Dilo can raise funds to help dolphins, please send them to: The Secretary, International Dolphin Watch. 10 Melton Road, North Ferriby, East Yorkshire HU14 3ET, England. or E-mail idw@talk21.com and head it ‘Fun(d) Raising’.
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NEW FROM INTERNATIONAL DOLPHIN WATCH
 Dilo’s
Dilo is a playful dolphin created by Horace Dobbs to introduce boys and girls to the joys and perils of being a dolphin
Dolphin Adoption Pack
 In his Dilo’s Adopt and Watch Handbook Horace gives details of the locations of the four dolphins around the British Isles that are available for adoption, with a bonus dolphin in the Bahamas. He explains that dolphins often travel considerable distances. Thus, apart from Funghie, the chan ces of actually seeing an adopted dolphin is small. Nonetheless, this colourful and enticing handbook will encourage youngsters to set off on their own personal dolphin watching trails and enjoy spectacular coastal scenery and varied wildlife along the way.
CONTENTS
Each pack contains a Dilo sticker, a certificate of adoption, a photograph of the adopted dolphin plus a handbook of course. To give dolphin watchers a greater insight into the delightful sea mammals they will be looking for, a copy of the book Dilo and The Call of the Deep, value £6.49, or alternative title, that will be enjoyed by children and adults alike, and personally signed by author Horace Dobbs, is also included.
One of the aims of Dilo’s Adopt and Watch Scheme is to raise funds to support the efforts of International Dolphin Watch to save dolphins around the world. Threats being tackled are: LFAS (low frequency active sonar), pair trawling and sand eel fishing.
Give a Child a Gift to Enjoy and Cherish
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Click here to open order form which you can then print. Please use your browser back button to return.
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Dilo Dome
Contact with dolphins, both real and imaginary, affects the human mind in many different ways. In children, especially those with special needs, it can lead to enhanced learning and social skills.
All children love to have a space of their very own – a den. Once inside they are separated from the ordered, organised world of adults. It is secure. It is safe. Yet it is a place of total freedom where their minds can wander. Using their imaginations, they can make their private space into anything they wish.
Please see our Dilo Dome page.
Following the initial evaluation of our first prototype Dilo Dome, we are now searching for an alternative design made from silk or similar fabric on a foldable frame. If you can help, please contact Jackie Connell, Project Manager.
E-mail: jackie.connell@ntlworld.com
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The Different Worlds of Dilo the Dolphin
Discovery, Learning, Fantasy, Reality, Imagination
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Humans live in different worlds. When we are born we live in a world of discovery centred around our mothers. Later we go to school and move into a world of learning. We also inhabit a world of fantasy. This is the world of books, films and Imagination into which we escape from what we call reality. All of these are inter-connected and we attribute our ability to move freely from one to another to our highly evolved brains, especially the cerebral cortex which is associated with the so-called higher mental processes such as appreciation of music.
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Dolphins have brains that are arguably more highly evolved than ours. So it is not unreasonable to suppose that dolphins also live in different worlds. It is difficult to interpret these in human terms but that is just what Horace is now doing with his stories of Dilo the dolphin. The idea of writing about a fictional dolphin first came to Horace after he met his first Ambassador dolphin - Donald off the Isle of Man and whose story is told in his books Follow a Wild Dolphin and Save the Dolphin (Souvenir Press).
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Gradually the character of Dilo developed in Horace’s mind. It was based upon the many other dolphins Horace met in the sea and the numerous experiences he had leading expeditions and making underwater films around the world. Horace called upon one of his diving buddies, Rico. a highly acclaimed artist and cartoonist, to provide the illustrations. On 1st January 1994, Dilo and the Call of the Deep was published by Watch Publishing in association with IDW. The book explores the undersea world as seen through the eyes of a young dolphin.
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By the time the book was published, Robin Petch and Kris Simpson, both dolphin devotees and teachers, had come into Horace’s life. With their help he produced Fascinating Facts and a Fun and Activities Book which made learning about dolphins fun.
Sally Galotti
In 1996 a brilliant young Italian artist, who was working for Walt Disney, read the Italian edition of Horace’s book Journey into Dolphin Dreamtime. Sally Galotti loved the sea and had a huge affinity with dolphins. She contacted Horace and offered to illustrate Dilo in her own way. Sally had also linked with Italian TV personality Mino Demato who was working to improve the conditions in a hospice in Romania for children with AIDS. Sally wanted to share with these children a fantasy world of dolphins, into which she could transport herself and also portray with her art. The children responded immediately to her and the joyful pictures of Dilo they painted together.
And so it was that in November 1997 Dilo appeared in full colour in Italy. Dilo was published by Editzione Punto d’in Contro. Much of the story was conveyed in Sally’s brilliantly coloured pictures. The book was in a shrink wrapped package containing a tape of dolphin sounds, which the children in Romania loved, and the Italian equivalent of Fascinating Facts.
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Much to everyone’s delight, especially the publisher who had invested heavily in coloured plates, the book was an immediate success and sold out in a few days. Dilo has a star on his dorsal fin. That shows he is on a mission. But what is that mission? For Sally Galotti it is that Dilo should bring into the lives of all children the joy of play, and of sharing love and friendship. With her magical pictures of Dilo Sally takes us down into an undersea world where the animals laugh and speak and teach us how nature is connected to the realm of spirit.
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Dilo in Hospital
Sally Galotti paints murals in children’s hospitals in Italy. It is part of an new approach to healing in which the environment in which the patient receives treatment is considered important. The joyful images of Dilo, and the friendly playfulness of all his undersea friends around him, lift the spirits of the children. It makes going into a hospital, or a clinic, a less frightening and traumatic experience. This, say the doctors, not only makes it easier to treat their patients, it also helps them get better more quickly.
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An Electronic Story Book, illustrated with beautiful colour paintings by Sally Galotti and an abridged Dilo story in easy to read text is available from the Dolphin Shop
The same abridged story entitled Dilo - the tale of a young dolphin delightfully narrated by Suzette is also available on CD from the Dolphin Shop
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DILO DOLPHIN FILM
Ever since he created Dilo, Horace Dobbs has wanted the mischievous dolphin to be the central character in a major film or an animated cartoon series for television.
Throwing down the gauntlet
Following in the footsteps of Nick Parkes, who used plasticine to model a silent dog called Gromet, and Peter Sallis to voice over Wenslydale cheese loving Wallace, Horace wants to be innovative and creative. He plans to take Dilo out of his books and put the dolphin onto the screen. He is throwing down the gauntlet and asking anyone interested in working with him to contact him via the IDW office, by phone (+44 (0)1482 632650), or
E-mail: horace@drdobbs.karoo.co.uk. Those with track records for producing TV programmes for children would be welcome. However, Horace does not want to discount the experience he gained when running research projects in which he found that good new ideas often came from young graduates whose minds were not encumbered with engrained established methods. He is therefore spreading his net wider in the hope that he might attract the students and staff in an art college, anywhere around the world, to produce a pilot film about Dilo as part of their course work.
Wider Applications
Images of dolphins can have a profound effect on the human psyche in many different ways. The Dilo books, for instance, have been shown to help children, especially those with learning difficulties, to learn to read more quickly.
The Dilo Dome is a portable dome in which children can experience the healing power of dolphins in the magical kingdom of Dilo the dolphin. When a Dilo Dolphin Video Film becomes available it is proposed to explore its use as a therapeutic tool in the form of a DVD that can be viewed on a portable DVD player inside the Dilo Dome.
Another potential application for the Dilo Dolphin Film is in the Dolphin Dome, a prototype of which was unveiled at the Open University, December 2003. The Dolphin Dome is a large dome, utilising the latest technology, in which it is possible for entire families to have an interactive healing experience. One feature of the Dolphin Dome is the display of dolphin images across a hemi-spherical screen as in planetariums.
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International Dolphin Watch 10 Melton Road, North Ferriby, E.Yorks HU14 3ET. England.
Tel: +44 (0)1482 632650 Fax: +44 (0)1482 634914 E-mail: idw@talk21.com
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