The Story of Doctor Dolittle, is the first of his Doctor Dolittle books, a series of children's novels about John Dolittle, MD, who is a respected physician and quiet bachelor living with his spinster sister in the small English village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh. His love of animals grows over the years and his household menagerie eventually scares off his human clientele, leading to loss of wealth. But after learning the secret of speaking to all animals from his parrot Polynesia, he takes up veterinary practice...
The Story of Doctor Dolittle, is the first of his Doctor Dolittle books, a series of children's novels about John Dolittle, MD, who is a respected phy...
If You Could Talk To The Animals in Your Life, What Would They Tell You?
The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts (1920), written and illustrated by Hugh Lofting, is the first of his Doctor Dolittle books, a series of childrens novels about a man who learns to talk to animals and becomes their champion around the world.
Doctor John Dolittle is a doctor who shuns human patients in favour of animals, with whom he can speak in their own languages. He later becomes a naturalist, using his abilities to speak with...
If You Could Talk To The Animals in Your Life, What Would They Tell You?
The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Being the History of His Pec...
