About the Author

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 and her first Hairy Maclary adventure was published in 1983. Lynley lives in Tauranga, New Zealand, with her husband Tony and a fiendish cat called Suu Kyi.

Reviews

Dodd's pictures are good, but the rhyming verse is even better - delightful to read aloud and soon learned by heart
*Independent*

(Hairy Maclary) is a child's best introduction to books
*The Times*