This second title in the Dolittle series was, for me, an improvement over the first due in large part to the addition of the character Tommy Stubbins – Doctor Dolittle’s young new apprentice. The first story was fun, but a little random and scattered at times. We now have a character who children ...
Doctor Dolittle's Return is the ninth book in Hugh Lofting's classic Doctor Dolittle series. Remarkably, it features some of the most memorable and funniest moments of the whole series. That's a rare thing in a long series!The book directly continues the plot line begun in the preceeding book, Docto...
Doctor Dolittle's Return is the ninth book in Hugh Lofting's classic Doctor Dolittle series. Remarkably, it features some of the most memorable and funniest moments of the whole series. That's a rare thing in a long series!The book directly continues the plot line begun in the preceeding book, Docto...
Doctor Dolittle in the Moon is the eighth book in the Dolittle series. It takes up the story directly from the end of the previous volume, Doctor Dolittle's Garden.The storyline changed rather radically in the middle of the book; it represented a profound shift in tone. Instead of trying to cope wit...
This is really a very unique and delightful little story about a very kind and gentle man who can speak to and understand animals. What's even more charming is that Hugh Lofting wrote these stories as letters home to entertain his family while away fighting in WW I. This book has that strange fanta...
Another in the classic Doctor Dolittle series. It's as charming as all the rest, but early on there's a story of a cat who stalks and kills a parrot. That story frightened my son a bit - not so much that he doesn't want to continue, but enought that he insisted on sleeping in our bed last night.Alth...
Doctor Dolittle's Garden occupies an odd spot in the Dolittle series; it's a transitional book, covering the end of the multi-book "entertainment" plot (as I call it) and the Moon plot that followed.The entertainment plot begins all the way back in the first book of the series, when the Pushmi-Pully...
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