Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy

Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy

Written for pre-school children, it has become a classic bedtime storybook in New Zealand and Australia,^[3][4][5] and Lynley Dodd's books, including this one, dominate the children's section of the Premier New Zealand Bestsellers list.^{[citation needed]}

The order of introduction of the dogs (with their house number in brackets) is:

• Hairy Maclary (from Donaldson's Dairy), a Scottish Terrier, (60)^[6]
• Hercules Morse (as big as a horse), an English Mastiff, (54)
• Bottomley Potts (covered in spots), a
  Dalmatian
  , (52)
• Muffin McLay (like a bundle of hay), an Old English Sheepdog, (48)
• Bitzer Maloney (all skinny and bony), a Greyhound, (36)^[7]
• Schnitzel Von Krumm (with a very low tum), a Dachshund, (22)

The story follows the assembly of a pack of dogs going to the park, and ends when they're all scared off by a fearsome cat - Scarface Claw.

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.

It has sold more than 11 million copies worldwide and been translated into Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, Swedish, Russian, Slovene

External links

• Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy Puffin Books Australia

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