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    Dame Lynley Stuart DoddDNZM (born 5 July ) 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.

    In , Dodd received the Margaret Mahy Award.

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

    Life and career

    Sculpture of Hairy Maclary and other characters from the books in Tauranga, New Zealand on the waterfront.

    Dodd was born in Rotorua in 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 Welli