31/08/2026
🐾📚✨ HAIRY MACLARY BONUS BOOK WEEK DAY! ✨📚🐾
“Out of the gate and off for a walk…” 🐶🐾
And out of the gate we went for ONE LAST Book Week adventure!
Today we finished our Book Week celebrations with a very special Hairy Maclary Bonus Day, and it felt as though the characters from Donaldson’s Dairy had stepped straight out of the pages and into our centre! ❤️📖
We had Hairy Maclary, Bottomley Potts, Hercules Morse, Muffin McLay, Schnitzel von Krumm and plenty of other familiar furry friends joining in the fun. 🐕🐾 And of course, we had to keep an eye out for that formidable feline… Scarface Claw! 🐈⬛😼
What a wonderful way to finish an incredible week of celebrating books, stories, imagination and early literacy.
For our educators, Book Week is so much more than costumes and parades. In the early years, literacy begins long before a child learns to read or write. It grows through conversations, songs, rhymes, storytelling, repetition, dramatic play and the simple joy of sharing a favourite book together. 🌱📚
Stories like Hairy Maclary are perfect examples of how children fall in love with language — through rhythm, rhyme, repetition, funny characters and those wonderful words they soon begin to remember and join in with themselves. ❤️
When our educators dress up, become the characters, retell familiar stories and share in children’s excitement, we’re showing them that books are something to be enjoyed, explored and celebrated. ✨
And with that…
🎬📚 THAT’S A WRAP ON BOOK WEEK 2026! 📚🎬
What an incredible week (plus one!) of stories, characters, laughter, imagination and memories.
Until next year… keep turning those pages! 📖✨🐾