Two mischievous pets home alone spells trouble … (Slinki Malinki, Open the Door - Lynley Dodd)

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Product:	Slinki Malinki, Open the Door - Lynley Dodd
Date:	11/09/00 (12 review reads)
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Advantages: very entertaining

Disadvantages: none

This offering by the inimitable Lynley Dodd concerns a sinuous black cat called Slinky Malinki and his partner in crime, a parrot called Stickybeak Syd. Finding themselves home alone one day, Slinky Malinki opens the doors to all the rooms which have obviously been left shut to keep them out, and they get into mischief, wreaking havoc in each room in turn.

The book is written in the same kind of catchy verse as the Hairy Maclary books, and after Slinky Malinki and Stickybeak Syd have finished destroying each room, there is a rousing chorus describing how Slinky Malinki leaps up and hangs on the door handle to open it. My daughter (two going on three when we first got the book out of the library) was chanting the chorus after the second read!

The illustrations really capture the naughtiness of the two, and there is a little surprise for them at the end of it all!

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