Hairy MacLary From Donaldson's DairyAll About The Hairy MacLary BooksThe Hairy Maclary books are a series of beautiful picture books for kids written by a New Zealander, Lynley Dodd. With their fun, mischievous illustrations and bouncy rhymes, the Hairy Mclary books are firm favourites for reading aloud. Sharing the Hairy MacLary stories with your children is great fun but did you know that it also helps your child learn important
pre-reading skills?
The Hairy MacLary books were huge favourites with my three children and I still have the dog-eared, very well-loved copies to prove it! Not to mention the fact that I can still recite large chunks of the stories by heart .... The books are written in rhyme and follow the adventures of mischievous Hairy Maclary and his doggy friends, including Schnitzel von Krumm, Bottomley Potts and Muffin McClay. The series began with the 1983 publication of Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy. Here is the list of the nineteen books in the series: About The Author - Lynley Dodd
Lynley Dodd was born in Rotorua in New Zealand on 5 July 1941. She graduated from the Elam School of Art in Auckland with a diploma in Fine Arts, majoring in sculpture and went on to teach art before taking a break to start a family. She did some work as a freelance illustrator and collaborated with author Eve Sutton on 'My Cat Likes To Hide in Boxes' before going on to write and illustrate her own books for children. As a child, Lynley adored Dr Seuss because of his "crazy sounds and the fact that he took such liberties with the English language." Other favourite authors included A A Milne and the fairy tales of The Grimm Brothers and Hans Christian Andersen. Today, Lynley lives in Tauranga on New Zealand's North Island. Return from Hairy Maclary to Best Books for Kids home |
