![]() ![]() But he is far from the only memorable character in Dodd’s scrapbook of ideas, which is also home to a photograph she snapped as a child of a dachshund that had chased a cat up a tree, and a newspaper clipping of a fox pushing a goose in a pram. In 1983, Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s dairy finally got out of the gate and off for a walk in the first book of a series that would go on to sell over five million copies globally. “I put that into my ideas book and thought, you know, maybe there’s possibility for him one day.” When Lynley Dodd sketched a scrappy black dog and a few lines of rhyme onto the back of a shopping list in 1979, she had no idea she had just created one of Aotearoa’s most beloved children’s characters. Get to know the mind behind some of Aotearoa’s most beloved children’s characters in this brand new documentary special. ![]()
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