"In the midst of the coldest leaf-bare any warrior can remember, the Clans have lost their connection with their warrior ancestors, and only one ShadowClan apprentice can still hear their voices--or their warning about the new shadow rising within the warrior Clans"--

Since the book Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy was first published in 1983, Hairy Maclary and his friends have become firm favourites with children all over the world. Dame Lynley Dodd's charming stories, written in bouncy rhyming verse, tell of the exuberant adventures of Hairy Maclary and his gang of canine friends, as well as the 'blacker than black' Slinky Malinki and 'mighty, magnificent' Scarface Claw.