Meet Hairy Maclary and his rollicking gang i! Who is covered in spots? Who has a low tum? And who is the roughest and toughest of all?
A tabbed board book all about rascally Hairy Maclary and his canine friends!
Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy meets a lot of his friends while he’s out and about on a walk – let’s see what they all get up to.
Little fingers will have so much fun turning the pages of this very special board book, with its sturdy pages and illustrated tabs featuring each of the characters our raggedy rapscallion runs with – or runs from!
Meet Hercules Morse as big as a horse, Bottomley Potts covered in spots, Muffin McLay like a bundle of hay, Scarface Claw the toughest Tom in town, and other favourite characters from the best-loved series by Lynley Dodd.
Hairy Maclary and Friends: Meet the
Gang!
Lynley Dodd
Picture Puffin
Supplied by Penguin Random House New Zealand
Reviewed by Jan Butterworth
A sturdy board book with tabs featuring all of the Hairy Maclary gang with the familiar descriptions of their appearance – Hercules Morse as big as a horse, Bitzer Maloney all skinny and bony, Schnitzel von Krumm with the very low tum! Each brightly coloured tab has the drawing of a character on it, making it easy to turn straight to their page to read the question of who it is. The tabs aren’t really designed for left-handers though – sigh.
The illustrations are framed in the colour of that pages tab and feature the well-known characters we know and love. The text is black and easy to read, standing out against a white background. The words are rhythmic and awesome to read aloud, while the pages are made of a thickened cardboard that won’t crumple easily, perfect for little fingers.
A must-have for any toddler!
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