> Skip to content
  • Published: 1 January 2015
  • ISBN: 9780140544398
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $16.99

Slinky Malinki




An edition to mark Slinky Malinki's 30th anniversary!

Slinky Malinki steals anything from a clothes peg, to a slipper, to a string of sausages, to a clock! Our hero is a BAD cat! The story is told in wonderful rhyme and through pictures full of life and movement.

  • Published: 1 January 2015
  • ISBN: 9780140544398
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $16.99

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.'

Also by Lynley Dodd

See all

Praise for Slinky Malinki

Lynley Dodd's imaginative rhyme is utterly addictive and Slinky Malinki himself is the embodiment of feline mischievousness.

Pip Jones' Top 10 Cats in Children's Books, The Guardian

Slinky Malinki is a particularly rapscallion cat with superlative characteristics. The full power and awe of feline independence, real humour and night-time magic are evoked by vivid illustrations, simple rhyme and splendid language.

Books for Keeps