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Paperback
Published: 2nd August 2010
Board book
Published: 24th August 2011
Hardback
Published: 11th March 2011
Hairy Maclary, Sit
By (Author) Lynley Dodd
Penguin Group (NZ)
Puffin
11th March 2011
New Zealand
Children
Fiction
823.2
Short-listed for New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards: Children's Book of the Year 1998
Hardback
36
Width 178mm, Height 235mm, Spine 9mm
240g
If anyone needs to go to obedience classes it's Hairy Maclary - but he just doesn't feel like obeying!
Lynley Dodd graduated from the Elam School of Art in Auckland with a diploma in Fine Arts, majoring in sculpture. She went on to teach art before taking a break to start a family. She began to work as a freelance illustrator and collaborated with author Eve Sutton on My Cat Likes To Hide in Boxes. There was no looking back as Lynley went on to write and illustrate her own books for children. Exuberant artwork and bouncy rhymes come together perfectly in books like Slinky Malinki and Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy. As well as being a visual delight, these are some of the most rewarding books for children and adults to read out loud. It comes as no surprise that, as a child, she adored Dr Seuss because of his 'crazy sounds and the fact that he took such liberties with the English language.' Other favourite authors included A A Milne and the fairy tales of The Grimm Brothers and Hans Christian Andersen. Today, Lynley is a big fan of Quentin Blake 'because of his humour and very clever art work.'