Now available on both Google Play and the App Store for phones and tablets. This is not only a marvellous story, but a superb aid for early learning and literacy development. You can even colour in pages of the story and record your own voice. Run your fingers over the text to hear the story and touch any word to hear and see it spoken and spelt. Now, a bronze statue to George stands in Manaia. George received two medals in posthumous recognition of his bravery, one of them bestowed on his owner by the then governor-general. Scarface slopes off and Slinky Malinki invites his friends home to sit in front of the fire, hobnobbing happily, ten in a row. The dogs (and cat) of Lynley Dodds’ Hairy Maclary stories are caught up in a game at Tauranga’s waterfront. The cats hiss and yowl until all the neighbours complain. Hobnobbing happily on the wall, ten in a row, the cats are disturbed by the crotchety Scarface Claw. He’s soon joined by his friends Greywacke Jones, Butterball Brown, the Poppadum kittens and the rest of the gang. Slinky Malinki wakes from a cosy sleep, stretches and slips out through the catflap and into the night. Wired Magazine review, Australia Slinky Malinki Catflaps

She worked as a teacher before beginning to write. This makes it worth the higher price point and demonstrates that some publishers can see beyond the traditional book and are interested in how children can develop their reading and literacy skills using an interactive text.” Now you can enjoy Lynley Dodds classic story with our online, interactive book. Lynley Dodd is New Zealands bestselling childrens author/illustrator and has an international following. It has good functionality, but nothing that will overwhelm children and takes it beyond many of the standard book apps for children that we see. “It is a book, drawing and recording app all in one.

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