Books with title Circus Doctor

Doctor Dolittle's Circus, written by Hugh Lofting and published in 1924 by Frederick A. Stokes, is set in England sometime between the original story and the later voyages narrated by Stubbins. The doctor needs money to pay off a voyage to Africa, so he joins the circus with the pushmi-pullyu as his attraction. He enlightens a circus owner who cares little for animals, fights against the practice of fox hunting and helps other creatures such as a circus seal and cart horses too old to work.

This book is the third in the chronological order of the adventures of Doctor Dolittle, 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.In this adventure, the doctor becomes the owner of a circus and all the lions, elephants and other animals in it.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!

'Doctor Dolittle’s Circus' is the story we all know and love that was adapted into the wonderful Rex Harrison film. To raise money for a trip to Africa Doctor Dolittle contacts a local circus and offers them the once in a lifetime opportunity of having the most rare animal on Earth, the Pushmi-Pullyu, perform in their circus. Of course, with Doctor Dolittle’s involvement nothing goes as planned and the doctor finds himself once against launched on another grand adventure.This edition is illustrated with 80 of Lofting's original images.