'Hairy Maclary's Bone,' by Lynley Dodd is another installment in the Hairy Maclary series, following the beloved dog from Donaldson's Dairy. I think this book is best for KS1 and lower KS2 especially for independent reading as some of the characters names could prove difficult to read and may put some children off reading. This is also a good book to read with a small group or 1:1 to try to identify rhyme. This book is brilliant as a whole class book, it could be used under a visualizer so that all of the children can see the wonderful pictures. It is also good for children with specific speech and language needs (or children without) who find it difficult to identify rhyming words as the short 4 line page can be read and the child can try to identity the two words that rhyme (sometimes there are two sets of rhyming words per page). It is great for children to try to end the paragraph by looking at the pictures and thinking of appropriate words that rhyme. This story is a lovely simple concept with lovely rhymes. All of the other dogs follow Hairy Maclary home but one by one get stuck at an obstacle until the only one left if Hairy Maclary who finishes the walk home alone with his bone.

Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy is given a bone from Samuel Stone.

This story is another instalment from Lynley Dodd about Hairy Maclary and his friends. Lovely illustrations by the author and an excellent Hairy Maclary adventure, made for children of ALL ages! This leaves Hairy Maclary free to trot safely home and have ALL of his bone to himself. For instance, Hercules Morse gets stuck trying to get through a hole in a sign board, Muffin McLay is unable to get under a hedge, Bottomley Potts gets caught up in a net in a fishing yard, Blitzer Maloney stumbles on a stony building site and Schnitzel von Krumm, a dachshund with a very low tum, is unable to jump over a wall that HM clears with ease. But fortunately for HM, obstacles along the way knock each dog in turn out of the chase. HM is blissfully unaware that his friends are after him and his bone. HM grabs it and dashes off for home to eat his bone in peace and quiet.īut his friends, Hercules Morse, Bottomley Potts, Muffin McLay, Bitzer Maloney and Schnitzel von Krumm and are all hungry and are sniffing around HM with his bone. Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy gets a massive, tasty bone from butcher Samuel Stone.

Hairy Maclary's Bone by Lynley Dodd