Written 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...

Written in 1920 by the British author Hugh Lofting, the Doctor Dolittle books, were a series of children's novels about a man who learns to talk to animals and becomes their...

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...

Doctor Dolittle’s Post Office is the third of Hugh Lofting’s Doctor Dolittle series.Set on the West Coast of Africa, the book follows the episodic format of most other...

Doctor Dolittle’s Circus is the fourth of Hugh Lofting’s Doctor Dolittle series.In Doctor Dolittle’s Circus the doctor needs money to pay off a voyage to Africa,...

The Dolittle household have been anxiously hoping for a year for the Doctor to return from the Moon, and it seems he will never come. What excitement when he does finally arrive,...

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle is the second of Hugh Lofting’s Doctor Dolittle series.Doctor Dolittle meets Tommy Stubbins, the young son of the local cobbler, who becomes...

More adventures of the eccentric country physician with a bent for natural history and a great love of animals. Doctor Dolittle’s garden is teeming with insects, so he is...

Doctor Dolittle’s Circus is in a bad way and so the Doctor searches for a special new animal to add to the Circus’ attractions. His discovery of Pippinella, a canary...

Doctor Dolittle lives in a little town called Puddleby. He is a doctor who shuns human patients in favour of animals, with whom he can speak in their own languages. He later...