Illustrated by Lynley Dodd

Lots of cats all around the world do exciting things like fly aeroplanes or play the violin - but my cat, an ordinary round-the-house cat, likes to hide in boxes. Children will love joining in with this fun rhyming story that is just right for beginner readers. LIANZA Esther Glen Award Winner, 19...

Slinky Malinki steals anything from a clothes peg, to a slipper, to a string of sausages, to a clock! Our hero is a BAD cat! The story is told in wonderful rhyme and through pictures full of life and movement.

Slinky Malinki wakes from a cosy sleep, stretches and slips out through the catflap and into the night. He's soon joined by his friends Greywacke Jones, Butterball Brown, the Poppadum kittens and the rest of the gang. Hobnobbing happily on the wall, ten in a row, the cats are disturbed by the crotch...

"In Riverside Hall on Cabbage Tree Row, the Cat Club were having their Annual Show ..." When Hairy Maclary bounces and pounces his way into the cat show, his flustering and blustering bring a very unexpected result...This title presents another rollicking, rhyming adventure with Hairy Maclary (from ...

Another story about Schnitzel von Krumm, the dog 'with the very low tum'. Schnitzel's family are packing for a holiday but Schnitzel can't help snuffling around bags and getting under feet. Finally on their way, the family don't realise that they've left one very important member behind - Schnitzel ...

Scarface Claw, Hairy Maclary's arch-enemy is at the centre of this story. Like most bullies however, he turns out to be not quite so tough as he and the other animals think when he is scared by his own reflection. Author Biography Lynley Dodd is an award-winning author/illustrator who lives in...

Each page in this book features a different animal, carefully camouflaged in its natural habitat. A rhyme tells readers what to look for, with animals such as a lion, seal, frog and chick to spot. Slinky Malinki, the black cat, also makes an appearance in the book. Review "Play hide-and-s...

"Hairy Maclary felt bumptious and bustly, bossy and bouncy and frisky and hustly". Hairy Maclary, everyone's favourite dog, is busy chasing and hustling all the neighbourhood cats from Slinky Malinki to Pimpernel Pugh. But when he comes face to face with Scarface Claw, the toughest tomcat ...

Cats from different countries do strange and exotic things, but this ordinary cat likes to hide in boxes. First published in 1973, this book is a classic.

The smallest turtle is the last to leave the nest and has to find his way to the sea all by himself. Ages 4+.

The Minister's Cat ABC is a delightful and very special alphabet book, based on the traditional game The Minister's Cat, and features Slinky Malinki, Butterball Brown, Scarface Claw and other well-known Lynley Dodd cats. The Minister's Cat ABC was first published in 1992 and has been out of print s...

From the creator of Hairy Maclary comes a new series starring a rascally cat named Slinky Malinki. "What was he up to? At night, to be brief, Slinky Malinki turned into a THIEF." But by morning, Slinky comes to realize that crime doesn't pay.This story spins off a character first introduced in HAIRY...

Hairy Maclary is terrific at finding trouble. And this time the playful pup is lost...in the middle of a cat show! Even so, Hairy manages to come out a winner. Brimming with Lynley Dodd's trademark bouncy rhymes and expressive illustrations, toddlers are sure to give Hairy Maclary's Showbusiness top...

In SCATTERCAT, Hairy encounters the ferocious Scarface Claw, who "bothered and bustled him, rustled and hustled him, raced him and chased him all the way home."

Schnitzel von Krumm's owners try to give him a new basket.AccoladesShortlisted for AIM Children's Book Award: Picture Book Category 1993.

Schnitzel von Krumm is left behind when his family goes on holiday.AccoladesShortlisted for AIM Children's Book Award: Picture Book Category 1993.

"Sniffles and snuffles and doses of flu - itches and stitches and tummyache too ..." Hairy Maclary is waiting to see the vet with lots of other pets. Then something happens to turn the waiting room into a kerfuffling scramble of paws, a tangle of bodies and a jumble of jaws ...what can be the matter...