Breakfast Blogging: Opinion(ated) Scribbling for No Apparent Reason
Year: 1993
Author: Lynley Dodd
Illustrator: Lynley Dodd
Slinky Malinki and Stickybeak Syd
were a troublesome pair; do you know what they did?
Alone in the house one mischievous day,
they opened a door and they started to play.
They shredded a shirt and they fought with a shoe,
a long woollen scarf and a petticoat too.
THEN… Slinky Malinki jumped high off the floor,
he swung on a handle and opened a door.
Year: 1998
Author: Lynley Dodd
Illustrator: Lynley Dodd
The house was asleep. It was silent and still,
with flickering shadows on ceiling and sill.
Slinky Malinki was cosy and snug,
curled in a ball on the raggedy rug.
He opened an eye, inspected his toes,
and washed from his tail to the tip of his nose.
He wiped round an ear with a delicate paw,
and S T R E T C H E D as he silently slipped through the door.
Whiskers all twitching and eyes shining bright,
he SQUEEZED through his catflap and into the night.
Year: 1990
Author: Lynley Dodd
Illustrator: Lynley Dodd
Slinky Malinki was blacker than black,
a stalking and lurking adventurous cat.
He had bright yellow eyes, a warbling wail
and a kink at the end of his very long tail.
He was cheeky and cheerful, friendly and fun,
he’d chase after leaves and he’d roll in the sun.
But at night he was wicked and fiendish and sly.
Through moonlight and shadow he’d prowl and he’d pry.
Year: 2001
Author: Lynley Dodd
Illustrator: Lynley Dodd
WHO is the roughest and toughest of cats?
The boldest, the bravest, the fiercest of cats?
Wicked of eye and fiendish of paw
is mighty, magnificent, SCARFACE CLAW.
Scaredy cats tremble and people all shout,
whenever this tomcat is out and about.
No matter what happens, whoever might call,
there’s NOTHING that frightens him, nothing at all.
Year: 2005
Author: Lynley Dodd
Illustrator: Lynley Dodd
Climbing the river bank on to the track,
went pittery pattery Zachary Quack.
He scruffled a centipede out of its house,
he pestered a spider and ruffled a mouse.
He bustled a beetle, asleep on a chair,
and hustled a dragonfly into the air.
FLICK went the dragonfly, FLICK, FLICK, FLICK,
here, there and everywhere, quick, quick, quick.
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