Dingo toys are not just legendary wild dogs from Australia for children to play with, but can engage and entertain kids too. Role playing dingo stuffed toys to tell stories can help to make children’s books like ‘Dingo Dog and the Billabong Storm’, ‘Dingo’s Tree’ or ‘Wombat Stew’ come to life.
Sharing a story with your child’s soft and cuddly dingo plush toy can help child development and improve your child’s reading, communication and vocabulary skills. A much loved dingo toy could be the perfect learning companion for children to practice their reading and storytelling skills. And if your child has an interest in dingoes, dogs or Australian animals, then children’s books that feature a dingo theme are the perfect book to entertain them.
We’ve compiled a selection of some our favorite story books for children featuring the wild dingo dog. Children can experience story time together with their favourite dingo toy and take them along on their imaginative adventures as they turn the pages of these dingo theme children’s books.
Off to the Races with Mukha the Dingo
Written by Ray Chung and illustrated by Emily Hurst Pritchett
When a shy but curious dingo named Mukha becomes lost at a horse racing event, she’ll do anything to find her humans. Mukha’s adventure is full of twists and turns as she accidentally runs in a terrier race, unintentionally participates in a fancy hat contest, and inadvertently winds up on the racetrack during the main event! Mukha will delight attendees and surprise race officials, but will she find her humans?
Dingo’s Tree
Written and illustrated by Gladys Milroy and Jill Milroy
When a shy but curious dingo named Mukha becomes lost at a horse racing event, she’ll do anything to find her humans. Mukha’s adventure is full of twists and turns as she accidentally runs in a terrier race, unintentionally participates in a fancy hat contest, and inadvertently winds up on the racetrack during the main event! Mukha will delight attendees and surprise race officials, but will she find her humans?
Dingo Dog and the Billabong Storm
Written by Andrew Fusek Peters and illustrated by Anna Wadham
The Bush animals are fed up of Dingo dog’s bullying and generate a storming idea to teach him a lesson. This traditional Australian ‘Tale with a Twist’ is retold by poet, author and storyteller, Andrew Fusek Peters, and delightfully illustrated by Anna Wadham. Tales from around the world provide an insight into cultures other than our own.
Dingo
Written by Claire Saxby and illustrated by Tannya Harricks
Poetic language and glorious illustrations follow a dingo from the comfort of her pack into the darkening landscape in search of food for her family.
Can you see her? There — deep in the stretching shadows — a dingo. Her pointed ears twitch. Her tawny eyes flash in the low-slung sun.
Dingo leaves her sleeping pups with her mate and lifts her head to smell the air. Dusk is a busy time — the time for hunting. Softly and fleetly she runs through the forest, past a possum, a wombat, and kangaroos in the gully below. Now she climbs to the highest point and sniffs again, locating the scent of rabbits in the wind. Interspersed with text offering facts for curious readers, Dingo is a lyrical foray into the life of these fascinating wild dogs.
Wombat Stew
Written by Marcia K. Vaughan and illustrated by Pamela Lofts
One day, on the banks of a billabong, a very clever dingo caught a wombat… and decided to make… Wombat stew, Wombat stew, Gooey, brewy, Yummy, chewy, Wombat stew!
In this classic Australian picture book, a dingo catches a wombat and wants to cook him in a stew. But all the other bush animals have a plan to save their friend. They trick the dingo into using mud, feathers, flies, bugs and gumnuts in his stew, and the result is something the dingo will never forget!
Mo the Daring Dingo
Written by Diane Evans and illustrated by Ian Faulkner
Mo is a daring little dingo with an adventurous spirit that is always getting him into trouble. His friends think he is funny. His mother is more exasperated than entertained! One day, instead of bunking down for a rest, he sneaks off on an adventure that will find him in the biggest trouble yet! There are plenty of warnings along the way, but Mo doesn’t always like to listen. What will happen when he comes face-to-face with a hungry crocodile?
Mo the Daring Dingo
Written by Diane Evans and illustrated by Ian Faulkner
Declan is the most dinky-di daredevil on his dirt bike. Join Declan and the daredevil dingoes as disaster dawns!
The Baby Dingo in Mummy’s Tummy
Written and illustrated by Dr Abraham Thomas
Kate the dingo was super excited when she was told that there is a baby in her Mummy’s tummy. She was curious to know how the baby got there? What does the baby do there? How long does he stay there ?How is the baby going to come out from Mummy’s tummy ?Her Mummy joined her excitement and had an answer for all the queries Kate had….about her baby brother in Mummy’s tummy….
