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|title=Hairy Maclary

|author=Lynley Dodd

|date=July 2002

|isbn=0670913502

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Hairy Maclary is a scruffy little black dog with a surfeit of fur and a tiny, nosy, pointed face with bright, mischievous eyes. In this book he and his friends are off for a walk and a good sniff of the neighbourhood. One by one they leave their houses and join the group of rather posy, show-off canine chums. There is Hercules Morse ''as big as a horse'', the Great Dane, Bottomley Potts ''covered in spots'', the Dalmatian, Muffin McLay ''like a bundle of hay'', the Old English Sheepdog, Bitzer Maloney ''all skinny and bony'', the Greyhound, and (my personal favourite) Schnitzel von Krumm ''with a very low tum'', the Dachshund. They roam around having fun sniffing the lamp posts and the telegraph poles, other peoples gates and each other. They're just like a group of dogs but they're just like a group of children too - prancing along, showing off and having a super time, until suddenly...