![]() These words proved to be life-changing and Hairy Maclary was born. ![]() In 1979, while living in Lower Hutt, she made a small sketch of a rather unkempt-looking dog and penned a few words underneath. She has written and illustrated 30 more in the years since. The first of her own picture books was The Nickle Nackle Tree (1976). Then in the mid 1970s she started to write as well as illustrate. It is still in print four decades later.ĭodd also worked cartooning for newspapers in the 1970s. ![]() In the early 1970s she and a relative, Eve Sutton, collaborated on a picture book, My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes. She worked, among others, for the New Zealand Correspondence School. Married with two young children, Dodd began freelance illustrating. ![]()
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