Dorothy Laing

Dorothy Laing was born on the island of Guadalcanal but has lived in New Zealand most of her life. She holds an LLB and an MA in art history from the University of Auckland.

In the days before the internet, it was one of the author’s children who posed the question, “What noise does a giraffe make?” The search for an answer was not easy in New Zealand, a country that boasts pastoral animals—mostly sheep, and wildlife of mainly birds.