title: Tilly and Friends: Doctor Tilly
author: Polly Dunbar
description: Polly Dunbar is a major star in the picture-book firmament. She is the author-illustrator of Penguin, Dog Blue and Flyaway Katie, and the illustrator of Shoe Baby, written by her mother, Joyce Dunbar. Her best-selling book Penguin has won numerous awards including the Book Trust Early Years Award 2007, the Nestle Silver Children's Book Prize 2007, the Practical Pre-School Award 2007 and the Red House Children's Book of the Year Award 2008, and was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. Her collection of titles beginning with Hello Tilly has been made into an animated series, Tilly and Friends, airing on CBeebies. Polly lives in Brighton, Sussex.
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  **Contents**
  
  Title Page  
    
  
  One
  
  Two
  
  Three
  
  Four
  
  Five
  
  Six
  
  Seven
  
  Eight
  
  Nine
  
  Ten
  
  Eleven
  
  Twelve
  
  Thirteen
  
  Fourteen
  
  Fifteen
  
  Sixteen
  
  Seventeen
  
  Eighteen
  
  Nineteen
  
  Twenty
  
  Twenty-One
  
  Twenty-Two
  
  Twenty-Three
  
  Twenty-Four
  
  Twenty-Five
  
  Twenty-Six
  
  Twenty-Seven
  
  Twenty-Eight  
    
  
  Acknowledgements
  
  An Interview with Sheila Riley
  
  About Annie Groves
  
  Also by Annie Groves
  
  Copyright
  
  About the Publisher
  
   _ **ONE**_
  
   _ **September 1943**_
  
  ‘Forty-eight hours’ embarkation leave.’
  
  Tilly felt a thrill of excitement shoot through her veins. This was it: she
  had been accepted to do her war work abroad. It was what she had been hoping
  for since she had volunteered for overseas duties. So much had happened in the
  last few months that it seemed as if she had been on exercises in Wales for
  years. Not that she could or would discuss it with anybody, even her mother,
  but there was a lot going on in Whitehall right now. Her mother