The Dinky Donkey (A Wonky Donkey Book)

by Craig Smith, Katz Cowley (Illustrator)

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

If you loved the Wonky Donkey, then wait until you meet the Dinky Donkey. Flat-out hilarious and utterly addictive to read, this is pure joy.

The Wonky Donkey has a daughter in this hilarious sequel to the runaway hit!

Wonky Donkey had a child,

it was a little girl.

Hee Haw!

The laugh-out-loud follow-up to the viral sensation The Wonky Donkey is here! Featuring playful verses by Craig Smith and charming illustrations by Katz Cowley, The Dinky Donkey follows the same formula that made its predecessor a worldwide hit. Readers will love the antics of this stinky punky plinky-plonky winky-tinky pinky funky blinky dinky donkey!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781338600834
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	11/05/2019
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Craig Smith is the recipient of the 2008 APRA Children's Song of the Year for The Wonky Donkey. When not writing, Craig works as a musician and entertainer. Visit him at craigsmith.co.nz.

Katz Cowley is an illustrator and teacher who leads workshops in drawing, creative journaling, and self-expression.

Editorial Reviews

★ "Should be packaged with an oxygen supply, as it will incontestably elicit uncontrollable gales of giggles." — Kirkus Reviews, starred review

From the Publisher

★ 2019-10-13
Even more alliterative hanky-panky from the creators of The Wonky Donkey (2010).

Operating on the principle (valid, here) that anything worth doing is worth overdoing, Smith and Cowley give their wildly popular Wonky Donkey a daughter—who, being "cute and small," was a "dinky donkey"; having "beautiful long eyelashes" she was in consequence a "blinky dinky donkey"; and so on…and on…and on until the cumulative chorus sails past silly and ludicrous to irresistibly hysterical: "She was a stinky funky plinky-plonky winky-tinky," etc. The repeating "Hee Haw!" chorus hardly suggests what any audience's escalating response will be. In the illustrations the daughter sports her parent's big, shiny eyes and winsome grin while posing in a multicolored mohawk next to a rustic boombox ("She was a punky blinky"), painting her hooves pink, crossing her rear legs to signal a need to pee ("winky-tinky inky-pinky"), demonstrating her smelliness with the help of a histrionic hummingbird, and finally cozying up to her proud, evidently single parent (there's no sign of another) for a closing cuddle.

Should be packaged with an oxygen supply, as it will incontestably elicit uncontrollable gales of giggles. (Picture book. 4-6)

Kirkus Reviews