She was appointed a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2002 New Year Honours, for services to children's literature and book illustration. In 1999, she became the ninth recipient of the Margaret Mahy Award. In 1990, Dodd was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal. In the 2019 TVNZ series Goodnight Kiwi the New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern read Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy the episode aired on TVNZ 2 on Christmas Day. In 2015 a sculpture of Hairy Maclary and other characters from the books was officially unveiled in Tauranga, New Zealand on the waterfront by former New Zealand Prime Minister John Key.
In the 1990s, a TV series based on the "Hairy Maclary" series featuring 10 five-minute episodes premiered. In 1983 the first book in the " Hairy Maclary" series Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy was published the following books in the series Hairy Maclary’s Bone (1984), Hairy Maclary Scattercat (1985), Hairy Maclary's Caterwaul Caper (1987), Hairy Maclary's Rumpus at the Vet (1989) and Hairy Maclary's Showbusiness (1991) were all shortlisted in the Children’s Picture Book of the Year Award, which Lynley Dodd won in 1984, 1986, 19.
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