Hugh Lofting (1886-1947) was a British author. While in the trenches during World War I, rather than write home to his children about his war experiences, he instead wrote letters telling the adventures of a gentle English physician who could speak the languages of animals, Dr. John Dolittle.
Lofting wrote (and illustrated) a total of ten Doctor Dolittle books, two posthumously. The first two are included here: "The Story of Doctor Dolittle" and The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle. The latter was the second book to be awarded the prestigous Newbery Medal in 1923. The book have been in almost...
Hugh Lofting (1886-1947) was a British author. While in the trenches during World War I, rather than write home to his children about his war exper...
There are some of us now reaching middle age who discover themselves to be lamenting the past in one respect if in none other, that there are no books written now for children comparable with those of thirty years ago. I say written FOR children because the new psychological business of writing ABOUT them as though they were small pills or hatched in some especially scientific method is extremely popular today.
There are some of us now reaching middle age who discover themselves to be lamenting the past in one respect if in none other, that there are no books...
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...
