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Here is the first adventure of everyone's favorite doctor, Doctor Dolittle. He lives a boring life in the sleepy little town, Puddleby-on-the-Marsh. But that all changes when a crocodile moves in and his parrot, Polynesia, takes it upon herself to teach the Good Doctor how to speak to animals. This edition contains over 50 of Lofting's orginal illustrations.

ONCE upon a time, many years ago—when our grandfathers were little children—there was a doctor; and his name was Dolittle—John Dolittle, M.D. “M.D.” means that he was a proper doctor and knew a whole lot. He lived in a little town called, Puddleby-on-the-Marsh. All the folks, young and old, knew him well by sight. And whenever he walked down the street in his high hat everyone would say, “There goes the Doctor!—He’s a clever man.” And the dogs and the children would all run up and follow behind him; and even the crows that lived in the church-tower would caw and nod their heads. The house he lived in, on the edge of the town, was quite small; but his garden was very large and had a wide lawn and stone seats and weeping-willows hanging over. His sister, Sarah Dolittle, was housekeeper for him; but the Doctor looked after the garden himself. He was very fond of animals and kept many kinds of pets. Besides the gold-fish in the pond at the bottom of his garden, he had rabbits in the pantry, white mice in his piano, a squirrel in the linen closet and a hedgehog in the cellar. He had a cow with a calf too, and an old lame horse—twenty-five years of age—and chickens, and pigeons, and two lambs, and many other animals. But his favorite pets were Dab-Dab the duck, Jip the dog, Gub-Gub the baby pig, Polynesia the parrot, and the owl Too-Too. His sister used to grumble about all these animals and said they made the house untidy. And one day when an old lady with rheumatism came to see the Doctor, she sat on the hedgehog who was sleeping on the sofa and never came to see him any more, but drove every Saturday all the way to Oxenthorpe, another town ten miles off, to see a different doctor.

Doctor Dolittle has a unique gift: he knows how to talk with animals of every kind. Join him as he uses his special skills to help a circus crocodile with a toothache; travels to Africa with his brave animal crew to bring the homesick croc back home; and fights off a band of pirates out to steal their ship! Previously published as individual chapter books and now gathered into a single volume for the first time!

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This is a reprint of 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 This 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.

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The Story of Doctor Dolittle, published in 1920, is the first in the classic series of children's books that center around the adventures of a man who has the ability to talk to animals. The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, published in 1922, is the second novel in the series. The book begins with Tommy Stubbins, the narrator of the story, trying to search for Doctor Dolittle after he finds an injured squirrel. Hugh Lofting was a British writer and civil engineer. Lofting is now best known for writing the Doctor Dolittle books which he actually began working on while serving in the British Army during World War I. The stories are still loved by millions of children worldwide as well as those who grew up reading them.

Doctor Dolittle was a little, lovable old doctor who had so many animal pets about his place that his patients would not come to see him anymore. So he became the animals’ own doctor, and his fame spread far and wide among them. A call came from the monkeys in Africa who were suffering from an epidemic, and the doctor went to their aid.Doctor Dolittle and his pets had wonderful adventures in Africa. In return for his services he was presented with a new pet, the Pushme-Pullyu, which has two heads so that it can talk and eat at the same time without being impolite. There never was quite such another little old doctor—his story will charm grownups as well as children, and the author’s delightfully humorous illustrations add the finishing touch to the volume.This edition has been lightly edited for modern readers. Newly designed and typeset by Waking Lion Press.Hugh Lofting was winner of the Newberry Medal for “the most distinguished contribution to literature for children in 1922.”

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This book is the first of Doctor Dolittle books, the beloved series of children's novels about a man who learns to talk to animals and becomes their champion around the world. John Dolittle, MD, is a respected physician and quiet bachelor living with his spinster sister Sarah in the small English village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh. His love of animals grows over the years and his household menagerie eventually scares off his human clientele, leading to loss of wealth. But after learning the secret of speaking to all animals from his parrot Polynesia, he takes up veterinary practice... And his amazing adventures begins.A favorite of all-times, this magical book and it characters has been made into several movies, and continue to excite the imagination of generations of children, and of the whole family!