 It has sold more than 11 million copies worldwide and been translated into Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, Swedish, Russian, Slovene - and te reo Māori.It has also been adapted into a stage play, which has been put on at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Sydney Opera House.In the 2019 TVNZ series "Goodnight Kiwi" the prime minister Jacinda Ardern read "Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy" the episode aired on TVNZ 2 on Christmas Day.