This Christmas, the beloved Slinky Malinki’s Christmas Crackers by Lynley Dodd has been released as a very special, cased board-book edition.

Christmas was coming.
Out came the tree,
dressed up in finery,
splendid to see.
Trinkets and tinsel
with baubles and bows,
a mouse with a hat
and a very red
nose.

It’s Christmas in Slinky Malinki’s house and the rapscallion, mischievous cat is most curious about the Christmas tree. With its reindeer, ribbons, baubles and bells, it’s too tempting a treat for Slinky not to investigate. So Slinky Malinki, with mischievous glee, creeps out from the shadows to climb up the tree . . .

A special, large-format, board book gift edition of this hilarious story from Lynley Dodd’s bestselling Hairy Maclary and Friends series, which is the perfect gift for a young animal-lover.

To get your copy, visit Penguin Books. 

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