Week:9 Lynley Dodd
In This Term me and my group, scarface claw Me, Maryam, Amaira ,Bianca we learned about Lynley Dodd. She is 84 years old and she lives in Rotorua she writes children’s books she illustrates her books she put pictures into it to make it more of fun/adventure she made so much books like, she has made 34 books Lynley Dodd has a special mind that makes children happy. As if they are on an adventure to make their minds daydreaming all about it, in her books she rhymes with every word she could think of and put it inside her book. Her book describes about how she thinks inside her head. She wrote so many books her first book was about “my cat likes to hide in boxes” Lynley Dodd loves her job as a writer and publishing her own books she has 2 daughter’s Ella and Julia is mentioned in a New Zealand Herald article from 2017.Lynley Dodd was married to Tony, who she met while teaching in Wellington; he passed away in 2014. Lynley Dodd ; she owned a Burmese cat named Suu Kyi, who inspired some of her stories, and she grew up surrounded by animals in her childhood. Suu Kyi was a diabetic cat requiring two injections a day and passed away in the years leading up to 2019.
