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Lynley Dodd (Lynley Stuart Dodd) was born on 5 July, 1941 in Rotorua, New Zealand, is a NZ children's book author and illustrator. Discover Lynley Dodd's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?

Popular As Lynley Stuart Dodd
Occupation Writer, illustrator
Age 82 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 5 July, 1941
Birthday 5 July
Birthplace Rotorua, New Zealand
Nationality New Zealand

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1941

Dame Lynley Stuart Dodd (born 5 July 1941 ) is a New Zealand children's book author and illustrator.

She is best known for her Hairy Maclary and Friends series, and its follow-ups, all of which feature animals with rhyming names and have sold over five million copies worldwide.

Dodd was born in Rotorua in 1941.

She was an only child and lived with her parents in Kaingaroa Forest, near Taupō.

She was educated at Iwitahi School and Tauranga College.

Dodd graduated from the Elam School of Art in Auckland with a diploma in Fine Arts, and became an art teacher spending five years teaching at Queen Margaret College in Wellington.

1974

Her first book was My Cat Likes To Hide In Boxes, published in 1974, which she wrote along with Eve Sutton.

1976

Her first book written solo was The Nickle Nackle Tree (1976).

1983

In 1983 the first book in her Hairy Maclary series, Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy, was published.

1984

It was followed by Hairy Maclary’s Bone (1984), Hairy Maclary Scattercat (1985), Hairy Maclary's Caterwaul Caper (1987), Hairy Maclary's Rumpus at the Vet (1989) and Hairy Maclary's Showbusiness (1991).

The first, third, fourth and sixth of these all won the New Zealand Children's Picture Book of the Year Award; the second and fifth were shortlisted but did not win.

1990

In 1990, Dodd was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.

1997

In 1997, Dodd was the screenwriter for a TV series based on the Hairy Maclary series featuring 10 five-minute episodes narrated by Miranda Harcourt.

1999

In 1999, Dodd received the Margaret Mahy Award.

In 1999, she became the ninth recipient of the Margaret Mahy Award.

2002

She was appointed a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2002 New Year Honours, redesignated as a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2009.

She was appointed a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2002 New Year Honours, for services to children's literature and book illustration.

2005

In 2005 her book The Other Ark won the Children’s Choice Award at the New Zealand Post Book Awards.

2009

Following the re-introduction of titular honours by the New Zealand government, she accepted redesignation as a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2009.

2014

While there she met her husband Tony; he died in 2014 after an illness.

After their marriage she began to work as a freelance illustrator.

2015

In 2015 a waterfront sculpture of Hairy Maclary and other characters from the books was officially unveiled in Tauranga by former New Zealand prime minister John Key.

2019

In an episode of the TVNZ series Goodnight Kiwi, airing on 25 December 2019, the prime minister Jacinda Ardern read Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy.

Dodd lived in Tauranga.