My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes is a New Zealand children’s book by Eve Sutton and Lynley Dodd, who are cousins by marriage.

The book was first published in 1974 and won the 1975 Esther Glen Award.

[1][2] According to Dodd, the book is based upon the "Dodd family cat, Wooskit, who, like all cats, liked to hide in boxes, supermarket bags, cupboards and hidey-holes of all kinds".

Dodd, however, continued to write for younger children—which eventually led to her famous Hairy Maclary series of children’s books.

[2] The 50th anniversary edition of My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes was published in February 2023.