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  • Published: 2 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9781776957453
  • Imprint: Picture Puffin
  • Format: Board Book
  • Pages: 16
  • RRP: $23.00

Hairy Maclary's First 100 Words




Lift the flaps and explore 100 first words with Hairy Maclary and his rascally gang in this bumper-sized board book!

Take a walk with Hairy Maclary, and sniff out 100 first words along the way in this chunky lift-the-flap board book!

'A child's best introduction to books' - The Times

Join the rascally dog and his friends as they go on adventures around the house and off up the street, to the park, to the zoo, and chase cats, play games and more — and discover 100 key first words along the way.

Perfect for tots just learning to talk as well as for preschoolers getting ready to read, little ones will love exploring the colourful scenes and lifting lots of flaps on every page as they learn and play with Hairy Maclary.

Enchanting children since 1983, Lynley Dodd’s Hairy Maclary and Friends is a top preschool brand all around the world, due to the quality of its language, its delightful characters and its humour.

Read all the Hairy Maclary and Friends books by Lynley Dodd!

  • Published: 2 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9781776957453
  • Imprint: Picture Puffin
  • Format: Board Book
  • Pages: 16
  • RRP: $23.00

About the author

Lynley Dodd

Lynley Dodd graduated from the Elam School of Art in Auckland with a diploma in Fine Arts, majoring in sculpture. She went on to teach art before taking a break to start a family. She began to work as a freelance illustrator and collaborated with author Eve Sutton on My Cat Likes To Hide in Boxes. There was no looking back as Lynley went on to write and illustrate her own books for children. Exuberant artwork and bouncy rhymes come together perfectly in books like Slinky Malinki and Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy. As well as being a visual delight, these are some of the most rewarding books for children and adults to read out loud. It comes as no surprise that, as a child, she 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 is a big fan of Quentin Blake 'because of his humour and very clever art work.'

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