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Puddleby-on-the-Marsh. Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting starting with the 1920 The Story of Doctor Dolittle.He is a physician who shuns human patients in favour of animals, with whom he can speak in their own languages.
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 the British author Hugh Lofting, is the first of his Doctor Dolittle books, a series of children's novels about a man who learns to talk to animals and becomes their champion around the world.
Sarah Dolittle is John Dolittle's sister and former housekeeper, first featured in The Story of Doctor Dolittle. When Dolittle allows the crocodile to reside on his premises, which scares his clients away and throws the household back into poverty, she leaves in disgust and gets married when Dolittle refuses to evict the reptile.
Dr. John Dolittle, an Englishman from a small village in the United Kingdom, specializes in providing medical care for and verbally conversing with various Fauna. Because of his care for animals, his practice with patients has fallen by the wayside. Dolittle helps a seal escape a circus by dressing her as a human.
Doctor Dolittle and the Secret Lake is a Doctor Dolittle book written by Hugh Lofting. The book was published posthumously in 1948, [ 1 ] 15 years after its predecessor. [ 2 ] Fittingly, it is the longest book in the series, and the tone is the darkest; World War II took place before the book was published, during which Lofting had published ...
The first four stories may be read at the beginning of the 1927 novel Doctor Dolittle's Garden. "The Green Breasted Martins" follows Chapter XII in The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920). "The Crested Screamers" and "The Lost Boy" are to be placed in that order within Part One, Chapter 12 of the 1926 book Doctor Dolittle's Caravan.
Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary is a Doctor Dolittle book written by Hugh Lofting. [1] Although much of the material had been printed originally in 1924 [ citation needed ] for the Herald Tribune Syndicate , [ 1 ] Lofting planned to complete the story in the book form but never finished before he died.
Doctor Dolittle's Return Gub Gub's Book: An Encyclopedia of Food: In Twenty Volumes is a 1932 children's book in the Doctor Dolittle series by Hugh Lofting . Gub-Gub the pig was one of the first animals with whom Doctor Dolittle learned to talk and appears in most of the books.