
He wore it all day and went nowhere without it.
In fact, sausage dog Hal wears his sweltering old yellow blanket so much that his pooch pals — Nipper Jones, Tootsie and Buster McNally — laugh at him for never taking it off and looking like a hot dog covered in mustard. Then one day disaster strikes and suddenly the blanket doesn’t seem so daft…
HOT DOG HAL is brilliantly illustrated by Tom McLaughlin (who lives just up the road from me in Exeter) and is my first book with Scholastic.