About the Author

Lynley Dodd is New Zealand's bestselling children's author/illustrator and has an international following. My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes was her first foray into children's books and was a collaboaration with her cousin by marriage, Eve Sutton. Her first Hairy Maclary book was published in 1983 and her subsequent stories have become firm favourites. Lynley lives in Tauranga, New Zealand, with her husband Tony, and a fiendish Burmese cat, Suu Kyi.