Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy (Hairy Maclary and Friends)

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Children will love looking at the detailed illustrations of each dog, and it's a great conversation starter around different words to describe how each dog looks and might feel" - The Evening Standard Join Hairy Maclary and his friends on their first ever adventure in this golden 40th anniversary edition of the beloved rhyming classic!

Life and career [ edit ] Sculpture of Hairy Maclary and other characters from the books in Tauranga, New Zealand on the waterfront.Margaret Mahy Medal Award". Christchurch, New Zealand: Christchurch City Libraries. 2012 . Retrieved 25 July 2012. Told through playful rhyme and colourful illustrations, Slinky Malinki has delighted generations of children with his laugh-out-loud adventures. Although the books are designed to entertain young children, they are not intended as "early readers", as are, for example, the " Cat in the Hat" books by Doctor Seuss which have a very basic & largely phonic vocabulary. The Hairy Maclary books, despite their simple stories, introduce the listening child to some long but very expressive words which are not part of the average pre-schooler vocabulary, but must be understood by the child in the context in which they occur. For example, the noise a stranded cat & excited dogs who discover it is described as a "cacophony". Hairy Maclary is a fictional dog, the hero of a series of children's picture books created by the New Zealand author Lynley Dodd and making his first appearance in 1983 with the publication of Hairy Maclary From Donaldson’s Dairy.

a b c Fiona Terry (8 August 2008). "Times Online: Interview with Lynley Dodd". London: Times Newspapers Ltd . Retrieved 5 May 2009. The Hairy Maclary series is an international classic and foreign language editions have been published in Sweden, Japan, Slovenia, Russia, Korea and China. In October 2017, Lynley Dodd published her twenty-first book in the series, Scarface Claw, Hold Tight!The brilliantly clever rhyme and vivid, engaging pictures have made this story into a children's classic, beloved for over 40 years - and it's still one of the most popular picture books today.