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Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- The Savior of Animals The first book in the series of Doctor Do little books, this adventurous children novel starts from Doctor Dolittle’s home and takes him to different places around the world. The story is about a respected physician who loves animals, obsessed with them, and who learns to talk to animals and how he becomes their friend and savior. In fact, this love of animals and his household menagerie scares the ghost out of his his human patients who visit the clinic, his house. His financial health takes a beating because of this. He then takes up a veterinary practice, his passion at last becoming his reality. He so quickly becomes “wildly” renowned throughout the animal kingdom. At one point Docotor Dolittle, just as he faces bankruptcy, has to go to Africa to cure a monkey epidemic with some of his “animal” companions. Now, this is the most difficult and dangerous (as well as adventurous) voyage anyone could take and they face shipwrecks, imprisonment and pirates! The rest of the book has answers to the questions: 1. Does he cure the monkey epidemic? 2. How does he solve his bankruptcy and who helps him? 3. What challenges and dangers does he face on the journey to Africa and back home? 4. What two-headed “gift” does he get from the monkey kingdom? First published in 1920, this treasured story sells like hot cakes up until to this day. It enjoys such a fascination among children. Rich in humor and easy plot, this is a very entertaining novel for both children and even adults, if you are a bookworm. Overall, a novel with rich and memorable characters. Trivia: Very interestingly, these Doctor Dolittle stories were letters from the author Hugh Lofting to his children when he was serving in the army, overseas, in England during the WWI. The Doctor Dolittle books were also made into a film. His wife suggested that he turned these letters into a book! He did. Scroll Up and Get Your Copy!

Rare edition with unique illustrations. Doctor John Dolittle loves animals. He loves them so much that his home and office overflow with animals of every description. When Polynesia the parrot teaches him the language of the animals, Doctor Dolittle becomes a world-famous doctor, traveling even as far away as Africa to help his friends. An adventurous children’s novel, The Story of Doctor Dolittle is the first book in the Doctor Dolittle series. The novel depicts the many adventures of Dr. John Dolittle as he learns the language of animals and takes on various feats including exotic travel, a dangerous encounter with pirates, and a mission to set right from wrong. An optimistic and heartwarming novel, The Story of Doctor Dolittle leaves no one feeling indifferent, as Dr. Dolittle risks losing everything including his house, family and wealth for the sake of proper care and love of animal life. Abundant with humor and a fun easy-to- follow plot, Lofting has successfully created a rich fantasy world with vivid portrayals of memorable characters which have entertained generations time after time.

No one loves and understands animals like the eccentric 19th-century physician Dr. Dolittle, who masters animal language with the help of Polynesia the parrot. After his human patients desert him, the kind-hearted doctor finds his calling in practicing animal medicine, and his fame spreads far and wide. When a terrible epidemic breaks out among monkeys in Africa, Dr. Dolittle sets out to save them, accompanied by some of his favorite pets. Thus begins the amusing, whimsical adventures of Dr. Dolittle and the animal kingdom. Hugh Lofting, winner of the 1923 Newbery Medal for The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle, has a gifted knack for imbuing unique, distinct personalities in his characters, human and animal alike.

John Dolittle was not your average doctor. He was known as a quiet, capable physician who lived a simple life in a simple house with his sister. His true love was for animals. He even kept a menagerie of wildlife in his very home, which ended up scaring away his two-legged human clientele. But after his parrot, Polynesia, teaches him the secret to speaking with animals, Dolittle finds a new calling as a veterinarian. He uses his gift to understand, help, and heal the furred and feathered of the world.

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. It was one of the novels in the series which was adapted into the film Doctor Dolittle.

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 doctor who shuns human patients in favor 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 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. It was one of the novels in the series which was adapted into the film Doctor Dolittle.

Doctor John Dolittle loves animals. He loves them so much that his home and office overflow with animals of every description. When Polynesia the parrot teaches him the language of the animals, Doctor Dolittle becomes a world-famous doctor, traveling even as far away as Africa to help his friends. This edition of the beloved children's classic contains black-and-white illustrations by Michael Hague and has been edited by award-winning authors Patricia and Fredrick McKissack for modern audiences.