![]() ![]() ![]() Translating the popular children’s series while keeping the poetry and motion has been problematic. Camera Icon Scarface Claw, Hold Tight by Lynley Dodd “I’ve certainly made life hard for myself but the stories do tend to suggest rhyme and the rhythm of the dog activities and what not,” she says. “Obviously the butcher had been very kind to him and I thought well, you’re never going to get home without your friends getting some of that.”ĭodd says once she named her most well-known dog, Hairy Maclary, her stories demanded rhyme. “I was getting into the car with the meat and was about to leave and come home when I looked across the road back to the butcher shop and there was a dog walking away from the shop with a whole pile of meat and bones in his mouth. “I was buying the meat for the week at the local butcher and had parked across the road. “One I tend to mention is for Hairy Maclary’s Bone, which is the second in the series, that came about from a definite happening,” she explains. The basis for adventures Dodd writes about are often animal antics she has been told or read about. He changed his character completely when he was inside and with the family.” “So he had a sort of peg leg and notches in his ears, so he really did look battle scarred. ![]() “At that time the horrible business of gin traps was around still and he got his leg caught in a gin trap a few times. ![]()
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