Lynley Dodd is an award-winning author/illustrator enormously popular for her rhyming stories of the memorable Hairy Maclary, Slinky Malinki, Schnitzel Von Krumm and many others! She worked as a teacher before beginning to write her own books in 1974. Lynley lives in New Zealand.
'(Hairy Maclary is) a child's best introduction to books' The Times 'The rhyming verse is delightful to read aloud and soon learned by heart' Independent