Saturday Morning With Jack Tame

Dame Lynley Dodd is a staple of Kiwi childhoods.   The beloved children’s author is best known for her Hairy Maclary series, the first of which was released over 40 years ago.  She’s sold millions of books worldwide, and just this week she was honoured at the New Zealander of the Year Awards.  Dodd was granted the Legacy Award for fostering a love of literature in generations of children.   While she admits it sounds a bit silly, Dodd admits to feeling slightly guilty at the level of acclaim and the legacy she’s built.  “Well I obviously, I think, [I've] been spending all these years thoroughly enjoying myself producing these books,” she told Jack Tame.  “It sounds a bit, you know, I’ve been indulging myself, and I have, doing these things, but no, it’s been great fun.”   Dodd’s love of wordplay and language stems back to her childhood, as her parents were, in her words, much into words, and there was an “awful lot of fun” with language in her home.   “Both my parents w