![]() ![]() He is a doctor who shuns human patients in favour of animals, with whom he can speak in their own languages. The doctor in this first book takes a ship to Africa to cure the animals there. Doctor Dolittle (Film series) View source Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of childrens books by Hugh Lofting starting with the 1920 The Story of Doctor Dolittle. He also owns a gazelle-unicorn cross called "pushmi-pullyu" ("push-me-pull-you") that has two heads, one at the back and one at the front of the body. He owns a parrot called Polynesia, a pig called Gub-Gub, a dog called Jip, a duck called Dab-Dab, a monkey called Chee-Chee, an owl called Too-Too, and a white mouse named "Whitey". ![]() Otherwise the book is fine (the story & pictures are great), it's good to find an edition that contains original text (only slightly and gently altered, unlike most available editions) + author's original illustrations. He has many friends, like Tommy Stubbins and Matthew Mugg, the Cats'-Meat Man. Some of the words in the text had been coloured with a red pencil (I'm guessing, the words someone had difficulty reading). Dolittle lives in the English village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh in the West Country. He starts treating animals instead of human patients. The Story of Doctor Dolittle is about a doctor who can speak with the animals in their own languages. ![]() This book is the first in a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting. The Story of Doctor Dolittle is a 1920 book about Doctor John Dolittle and his animals. ![]()
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