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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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Lynley Dodd Height, Weight & Measurements
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Dating & Relationship status
She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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Lynley Dodd Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Lynley Dodd worth at the age of 82 years old? Lynley Dodd’s income source is mostly from being a successful author. She is from New Zealand. We have estimated Lynley Dodd's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2024 |
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| Net Worth in 2023 |
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| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
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| Source of Income |
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Timeline
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.
Her first book was My Cat Likes To Hide In Boxes, published in 1974, which she wrote along with Eve Sutton.
Her first book written solo was The Nickle Nackle Tree (1976).
In 1983 the first book in her Hairy Maclary series, Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy, was published.
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.
In 1990, Dodd was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.
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.
In 1999, she became the ninth recipient of the Margaret Mahy Award.
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.
In 2005 her book The Other Ark won the Children’s Choice Award at the New Zealand Post Book Awards.
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.
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.
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.
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.
