''Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy'' first published in 1983, is the first and most well-known of a series of books by New Zealand author

Lynley Dodd Dame Lynley Stuart Dodd (born 5 July 1941) is a New Zealand children's book author and illustrator. She is best known for her '' Hairy Maclary and Friends'' series, and its follow-ups, all of which feature animals with rhyming names and have so ...

featuring

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. His adventures are usually in the company of his other dog friends. His arch-enemy is the tomcat

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. Written for pre-school children, it has become a classic bedtime storybook in New Zealand and Australia, and

's books, including this one, dominate the children's section of the Premier New Zealand Bestsellers list. The order of introduction of the dogs (with their house number in brackets) is: * Hairy Maclary (from Donaldson's Dairy), a

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, (60) * Hercules Morse (as big as a horse), an

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, (54) * Bottomley Potts (covered in spots), a Dalmatian, (52) * Muffin McLay (like a bundle of hay), an

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, (48) * Bitzer Maloney (all skinny and bony), a

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, (36) * Schnitzel Von Krumm (with a very low tum), a

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, (22) The story follows the assembly of a pack 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

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, though it breaks into a more urgent

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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 - and te reo Māori. It has also been adapted into a stage play, which has been put on at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Sydney Opera House. In the 2019

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'', the prime minister

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read ''Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy'' the episode aired on

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''Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy''
Puffin Books Australia 1983 children's books Children's books about cats Children's books about dogs Books by Lynley Dodd Fictional cats Fictional dogs Hairy Maclary New Zealand children's books {{child-picture-book-stub