Dame Lynley Dodd is the author and illustrator of the much-loved Hairy Maclary and Friends series, as well as numerous other best-selling children?s stories. She published Hairy Maclary from Donaldson?s Dairy in 1983 and has gone on to write and illustrate a further 20 stories in the series, including stories based around some of Hairy Maclary?s canine friends and feline foes - Slinky Malinki, Schnitzel von Krumm, Scarface Claw, and a duckling called Zachary Quack. Lynley lives in Tauranga, New Zealand. When asked which of her books she most enjoyed working on, she replied, I really enjoyed doing the illustrating for books like Find Me a Tiger, The Other Ark, Sniff-Snuff-Snap! and The Dudgeon is Coming because there was more scope for imagination in the different animals and settings, as well as things like animal camouflage to explore.