When I was on holiday recently in Mt Maunganui, I went over the bridge to Tauranga and saw this fantastic sculpture of the 'characters' in the children's books of writer/illustrator Lynley Dodd who comes from Tauranga. Her first and most adored book is 'Hairy McLary from Donaldson's Dairy'. Hairy is a hairy little dog. Over the course of other books, Hairy amasses loads of friends and not-quite friends: Slinky Malinky, Schnitzel Von Krumm, Scarface McClaw, Bottomley Potts, Muffin McClay. They are all represented in this sculpture. The books are loved world-wide.
Hairy is the little dog at the bottom of the pole trying to get at the cat.
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