![]() ![]() Since then, author and illustrator Lynley Dodd has sent Hairy off on 11 more adventures and written another nine about his friends. ![]() But these dogs were no match for Scarface Claw, the toughest tom in town, and their excursion was quickly cut short as they each scurried off with a yowl - and a wail, and a howl - straight back home to bed. They got together and wandered off, sniffing all the smells, past the shops and the park, snooping at each door. Hairy the Skye terrier and his gang of dog mates - Hercules Morse, Bottomley Potts, Muffin McLay, Bitzer Maloney, and Schnitzel von Krumm - had their first adventure in 1983. She and author Eve Sutton had already won the prestigious Esther Glen award in 1975 for the classic My cat likes to hide in boxes. The publication in 1983 of Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy skyrocketed Lynley Dodd to the status of picture book legend. Cover of Lynley Dodd's Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy (1983). ![]()
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