For all you dog lovers out there, there is also the hilarious Hairy Maclary series. New Zealand author Lynley Dodd has over 20 children’s titles, several in the Slinky Malinki series. I might ask students to describe what they see in the picture (spaghetti, fruit, a sink, some pans, for example) and then say what room they think Slinky Malinki is in (“the kitchen!”). It’s a great opportunity for vocabulary development, classification, and inferencing during a read aloud with young readers. With this book, I love that author Lynley Dodd doesn’t tell you which rooms Slinky is going into. In Slinky Malinky, Open the Door, Slinky opens the door to every room in the house, and you can imagine what a mess he gets into.
They sat in the moonlight’s silvery glow, hobnobbing happily, ten in a row.” “From nooks and from crannies, from mischief and game, from every corner and crevice they came. In Catflaps, Slinky Malinki and the neighbourhood cats prowl about at night and have a run-in with Scarface Claw. Slinky Malinki wakes from a cosy sleep, stretches and slips out through the catflap and into the night. They are rich in vocabulary, rhythm and rhyme.
The Slinky Malinki books have a wonderful use of language. He sneaks out at night and steals items from the neighbours: gloves, socks, teddy bears – you name it – until he has quite the collection. He had bright yellow eyes, a warbling wail, and a kink at the end of his very long tail.” Read more Reading age 3 - 5 years Print length 32 pages Language English Dimensions 25.22 x 0.3 x 18. A story told in witty and imaginative rhyme. “Slinky Malinki was blacker than black, a stalking and lurking adventurous cat. Slinky Malinki is a very bad cat who will steal anything, from a clothes peg or a slipper to a string of sausages or a clock. One of my students introduced me to Slinky Malinki and I’ve been a fan ever since.
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