Books by Hugh Lofting

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (1922) is a children's fantasy novel by Hugh Lofting. The novel is the second in a series of fifteen books featuring Doctor Dolittle, a character created by Lofting in letters written to his wife and children at home while he served in the Great War. Beloved by generations of adults and children for their imaginative nature and moral worldview, Lofting's books have inspired numerous adaptations for theater, film, and television.Doctor John Dolittle is an ordinary physician with an extraordinary gift. When Tommy Stubbins finds a badly injured squirrel, he goes around town asking for help. Told to pay a visit to the Doctor, he arrives at his clinic he discovers a strange world of wild and exotic animals. When Doctor Dolittle arrives home from a journey, he heals the squirrel and welcomes Tommy to stay. Now a student of Dolittle, Tommy learns from Polynesia the parrot how to communicate with all animals, and befriends the Wiff-Waff fish, Dab-Dab the duck, and others. When a Purple Bird of paradise arrives at the clinic with news that a friend of the Doctor's has gone missing on Spider Monkey Island, the group embarks on a voyage across the world. On their way to the coast of South America, they make a stop in Spain where the Doctor competes with local matadors to end the tradition of bullfighting. After a shipwreck strands Tommy alone, he must enlist the help of a pod of porpoises to make it to Spider Monkey Island, where he will hopefully find his friends. Featuring war between the Bagjagderags and the Popsipetels, as well as a magical creature known as the Great Glass Sea Snail, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle is a delightful work of fantasy for children and adults alike.Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

Doctor Dolittle meets Tommy Stubbins, the young son of the local cobbler, who becomes his new assistant. Tommy learns how to speak animal languages and becomes involved in the Doctor's quest to find Long Arrow, the greatest naturalist in the world. This novel takes us to the Mediterranean, South America, and even under the sea.

Ein weiteres Buch uber den weltberuhmten Tierfreund Doktor Dolittle: Zuruck aus Afrika, muss Doktor Dolittle Geld verdienen. Er findet einen Wanderzirkus, in dem er das afrikanische Stomich-Ziehdich zeigen kann. Doch viele der Tiere im Zirkus leiden und erzahlen Doktor Dolittle von den nicht artgerechten Zustanden im Zirkus. Naturlich hilft der Doktor ihnen. In einer spektakularen Fluchtaktion bringen sie zunachst die Seehundfrau Sophie zuruck ins Meer...-

Das zweite Buch um den beliebten Doktor Dolittle, der mit seiner Kunst, die Tiersprachen zu konnen, auch Menschenleben rettet: Doktor Dolittle begibt sich auf die Spinnenaffeninsel, um die Sprache der Schalentiere zu lernen. Doch schnell wird klar, dass die Insel in Richtung Sudpol treibt und die Einheimischen zu erfrieren drohen. Kann Doktor Dolittle die Insel noch retten?-

First published in 1920, "The Story of Doctor Dolittle", or "Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts", is Hugh Lofting's classic children's novel about the animal-loving British country doctor, John Dolittle, who learns he can talk to animals with help from his pet parrot Polynesia. In this first book in a series of titles about Doctor Dolittle's adventures, the good doctor puts his unique skills to use when he has to leave his beloved home in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh and travel to Africa with his pets to help cure a terrible monkey epidemic. Doctor Dolittle and his pets, including Jip, his loyal dog and Dab-Dab, his housekeeping duck, encounter all manner of adventure and misfortune during their trip, from a shipwreck, to being kidnapped, to encounters with pirates, and to the discovery of unique and interesting animals. After finally curing the monkeys, Doctor Dolittle and his pets are able to return to their idyllic country home with grand treasures and amazing stories to tell from their voyage. This edition includes all the original illustrations by the author and is printed on premium acid-free paper.

Het huis van dokter Dolittle begint zo langzamerhand een echte dierentuin te worden, door de vele dieren die hem opzoeken en bij hem willen blijven wonen. In dit vijfde deel van de serie over de dokter die met dieren kan praten bouw Dolittle allerlei nieuwe dierenverblijven aan en rond zijn huis.Daarnaast ontmoet hij de hond Kling, die als detective werkt. Samen met Kling gaat dokter Dolittle op avontuur om een raadsel op te lossen.Hugh Lofting (1886-1947) was een Britse schrijver die vooral bekend werd met de kinderboekenreeks over dokter John Dolittle, die met dieren kan praten. De reeks ontstond in de brieven die hij als frontsoldaat naar zijn kinderen stuurde om hen af te leiden van de verschrikkingen van de oorlog. Naast de Dolittle-reeks schreef Lofting diverse prentenboeken en poëziebundels voor kinderen. Hij schreef maar één werk voor volwassenen: een gedicht over de zinloosheid van oorlog.

Het kinderboek Doctor Dolittle op de Maan (1928) was bedoeld als slotstuk van Loftings grote Doctor Dolittle-serie. In tegenstelling tot de eerdere Dolittle-boeken zijn er geen subplots; er is een strakke verhaallijn die in een welhaast omineuze toon wordt verteld. Doctor Dolittle is geland op de maan en doet daar allerlei ontdekkingen. Ook ontmoet hij Otho Bludge de Maanman, een kunstenaar uit de Steentijd die op de maan is achtergebleven toen die van de aarde scheidde. Dolittle gaat om met maandieren en ontdekt hoe hij met intelligente maanplanten kan communiceren.Hugh Lofting (1886-1947) was een Britse schrijver die vooral bekend werd met de kinderboekenreeks over dokter John Dolittle, die met dieren kan praten. De reeks ontstond in de brieven die hij als frontsoldaat naar zijn kinderen stuurde om hen af te leiden van de verschrikkingen van de oorlog. Naast de Dolittle-reeks schreef Lofting diverse prentenboeken en poëziebundels voor kinderen. Hij schreef maar één werk voor volwassenen: een gedicht over de zinloosheid van oorlog.

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We havent used any OCR or photocopy to produce this book. The whole book has been typeset again to produce it without any errors or poor pictures and errant marks.

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We havent used any OCR or photocopy to produce this book. The whole book has been typeset again to produce it without any errors or poor pictures and errant marks.

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 children's 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 animals to better understand nature and the history of the world. The character Doctor Dolittle first appeared in the author's illustrated letters to children, written from the trenches during World War I when actual news, he later said, was either too horrible or too dull. Get Your Copy Now.