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Reasonable having young dogs speaking in children's stories (5,5)

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I believe the answer is:

fairy tales

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'children's stories' is the definition.
(stories for children)

'reasonable having young dogs speaking' is the wordplay.
'reasonable' becomes 'fair' (synonyms).
'having' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'young' becomes 'y'.
'dogs speaking' becomes 'tales' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'fair'+'y'+'tales'='FAIRY-TALES'

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(Other definitions for fairy tales that I've seen before include "Unbelievable stories" , "Perrault's works" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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