Hairy Maclary's Bone is a children's book by Dame Lynley Stuart Dodd, with art by the author, published in 1984; it is the second in a series of books about a dog named Hairy Maclary. It is available at the Internet Archive.
Here is a YouTube read-along:
The story, told in rhyme, starts with Hairy Maclary receiving a nice bone from Mr. Stone, but other dogs follow him. The other dogs do not join him in a cumulative chain (that happens in the first book of the series), but he loses them one by one: Hercules Morse gets stuck under a sign, Muffin McLay gets stuck in a hedge, Bottomley Potts gets tangled in a rope, Bitzer Maloney gets stuck in some rubble, and Schnitzel von Krumm is not able to leap the stone wall... so Hairy Maclary got the bone all to himself. All these other dogs are characters from the book series, so knowing the series makes the book more fun to read. Each pair of pictures shows the other dogs going along on their way in one picture, with a follow-up picture showing the dog who gets stuck; for example:
The book itself works best for readers familiar with the series, but it also offers a possible model for storytelling, with the emphasis not on the accumulation of companions (although that could be included, and I've labeled this as an accumulation-of-companions story type), but instead on the shedding of the companions, one by one.
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