The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

Author: Hugh Lofting
Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 396

Book Description
Doctor Dolittle heads for the high seas in perhaps the most amazing adventure ever experienced by man or animal. Told by nine-and-a-half-year-old Tommy Stubbins, crewman and future naturalist, the voyages of Doctor Dolittle and his company lead them to Spidermonkey Island. Along with his faithful friends, Polynesia the parrot and Chee-Chee the monkey, Doctor Dolittle survives a perilous shipwreck and lands on the mysterious floating island. There he meets the wondrous Great Glass See Snail who holds the key to the greatest mystery of all.

Doctor Dolittle The Complete Collection, Vol. 1

Author: Hugh Lofting
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534448926
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 720

Book Description
Just in time for the major motion picture Dolittle starring Robert Downey Jr.—soaring into theaters on January 17, 2020! Journey into the world of Doctor Dolittle, the kind and eccentric naturalist who can speak with animals. Working with original author Hugh Lofting’s son, these books have been fully updated for the modern reader, all while retaining the full charm of the originals. Rediscover the children’s literature classic with three novels from the beloved series! Here are the good Doctor’s three exciting tales of world travel, beginning with his greatest adventure. In The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, winner of the prestigious Newbery Medal, the Doctor and his young assistant, Tommy Stubbins, travel in search of the brilliant naturalist Long Arrow, culminating in a meeting with the most fabled creature of all, the Great Glass Sea Snail! The Story of Doctor Dolittle details how the Doctor came to learn the languages of animals, and how he was called to Africa where he meets the rarest of all beasts, the marvelous two-headed pushmi-pullyu! And in another African adventure, Doctor Dolittle’s Post Office, the Doctor establishes the only postal service in the world where birds deliver the mail!

Doctor Dolittle The Complete Collection (Boxed Set)

Author: Hugh Lofting
Publisher: Aladdin
ISBN: 9781534450349
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Just in time for the major motion picture Dolittle starring Robert Downey Jr.—soaring into theaters on January 17, 2020! Journey into the world of Doctor Dolittle, the kind and eccentric naturalist who can speak with animals. Working with original author Hugh Lofting’s son, these books have been fully updated for the modern reader, all while retaining the full charm of the originals. Rediscover the children’s literature classic with this gorgeous paperback boxed set! This collectible boxed set includes: The Story of Doctor Dolittle The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (which inspired the upcoming movie starring Robert Downey Jr.) Doctor Dolittle’s Post Office Doctor Dolittle’s Circus Doctor Dolittle’s Caravan Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary Doctor Dolittle’s Zoo Doctor Dolittle’s Puddleby Adventures Doctor Dolittle’s Garden Doctor Dolittle in the Moon Doctor Dolittle’s Return Doctor Dolittle and the Secret Lake Gub Gub’s Book

Doctor Dolittle

Author: Hugh Lofting
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780899666747
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
This treasury contains selections from eight of the original Dr. Dolittle books in which readers meet the lovable man who can talk to the animals.

The Story of Doctor Doolittle

Author: Hugh Lofting
Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Company
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description
Dolittle is an English gentleman who finds himself in the wrong occupation, a doctor of people, and gradually withdraws from society becoming a poor down and out town recluse. One day his English speaking pet parrot Polynesia lets him in on a secret that animals have a language of their own. Dolittle, now able to understand the complaints of animals, becomes a successful and world-renowned doctor of animals. Animal language is the central device of the series - in an age when every Disney film features English speaking animals it seems almost normal, but Lofting makes it seem new and marvelous. Indeed, the animals don

Doctor Dolittle's Post Office

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 392

Book Description
Doctor Dolittle establishes a swallow mail service for the animals when he discovers that they have their own way of writing.

Doctor Dolittle Meets the Pushmi-pullyu

Author: Hugh Lofting
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 9780440415503
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Doctor Dolittle travels to Africa to save the sick monkeys, and there he encounters the rarest of all animals, the pushmi-pullyu.

Animal Talk

Author: Hugh Lofting
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9781402732911
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
A brief, simplified retelling of the episode in "Doctor Dolittle" during which a physician discovers that he has a strange and wonderful gift for talking with animals.

The Akhenaten Adventure

Author: P. B. Kerr
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780439771351
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 355

Book Description

Gub Gub's Book

Author: Hugh Lofting
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description
On a succession of evenings, the animals settle into Doctor Dolittle's kitchen to hear Gub-Gub the pig read parts of his book on food.