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

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In the 2019 TVNZ series Goodnight Kiwi, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern read Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy. Schnitzel von Krumm with a very low tum) and picture - then the preceding dogs are all named again: dada dididah dada dididah . The animals in this series, unlike the creatures of Beatrix Potter's stories, are not given human thoughts and motives, their actions tell the stories, and reflect their animal natures.

Like most of Dodd's books, it is written in anapaestic verse, though it breaks into a more urgent trochaic form when the dogs encounter the cat.In this fabulous set of audio rhyming tales, Hairy Maclary and his friends just want to have fun, but trouble is never far away!

A deliciously chunky hardback gift edition of five Hairy Maclary stories from the first, HAIRY MACLARY FROM DONALDSON'S DAIRY to HAIRY MACLARY'S RUMPUS AT THE VET.We love, love, love this tale and have gone on to read and enjoy all the other stories with Hairy Maclary. The success of the books lies in the wonderful, sing-song rhythm and verse along with the vivid illustrations of dogs and cats. Inventive language, clever rhymes and lots of repetition make it an absolute treat to read aloud, and it's one of the books I've most enjoyed sharing with my two year-old daughter.

But there's just something about this little dog, nothing but a pile of hair, marching down the street, collecting all his friends, like Hercules Morse, as big as a horse, only to be chased away by the vicious Slinky Malinki! It was thirty years ago that a small black dog stepped out of the imagination of author and illustrator Lynley Dodd and onto the pages of a picture book.Truly, the humour, the joy, the rhythm, rhyme and pattern all help to make the dogs heading for Donaldson's Dairy memorable, engaging and hugely entertaining. For the more cat minded reader Lynley Dodd has written several excellent stories about Slinky Malinki which are equally brilliant and the various cat and dog characters meet each other in some of the books.