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The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle is a high-seas adventure of
exploration, shipwreck, derring-do, and of course, talking animals.
The animals talk because Doctor Dolittle is no ordinary doctor. He
has learned the secret of animal language, and uses his talents to
help out his friends in the animal world. Now nine-year-old Tommy
Stubbins, the son of a shoemaker, has the opportunity to become
Dolittle's assistant, and join him on his journeys. Together with
their animal companions they will travel to the strange
Spidermonkey Island and beyond, in search of a colleague who has
gone missing. The second of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle series,
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle was awarded the prestigious Newbery
Medal for children's fiction.
The charming story of Pippinella, the green canary, as told by Pip
herself to the Doctor.
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support
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at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - There are some of us now reaching
middle age who discover themselves to be lamenting the past in one
respect if in none other, that there are no books written now for
children comparable with those of thirty years ago. I say written
FOR children because the new psychological business of writing
ABOUT them as though they were small pills or hatched in some
especially scientific method is extremely popular today. Writing
for children rather than about them is very difficult as everybody
who has tried it knows. It can only be done, I am convinced, by
somebody having a great deal of the child in his own outlook and
sensibilities. Such was the author of "The Little Duke" and "The
Dove in the Eagle's Nest," such the author of "A Flatiron for a
Farthing," and "The Story of a Short Life." Such, above all, the
author of "Alice in Wonderland." Grownups imagine that they can do
the trick by adopting baby language and talking down to their very
critical audience. There never was a greater mistake. The
imagination of the author must be a child's imagination and yet
maturely consistent, so that the White Queen in "Alice," for
instance, is seen just as a child would see her, but she continues
always herself through all her distressing adventures. The supreme
touch of the white rabbit pulling on his white gloves as he hastens
is again absolutely the child's vision, but the white rabbit as
guide and introducer of Alice's adventures belongs to mature grown
insight.
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at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - ALL that I have written so far about
Doctor Dolittle I heard long after it happened from those who had
known him - indeed a great deal of it took place before I was born.
But I now come to set down that part of the great man's life which
I myself saw and took part in. Many years ago the Doctor gave me
permission to do this. But we were both of us so busy then voyaging
around the world, having adventures and filling note-books full of
natural history that I never seemed to get time to sit down and
write of our doings.
Doctor Dolittle's Post Office (1920) is a children's fantasy novel
by Hugh Lofting. The novel is the third in a series of fifteen
books featuring Doctor Dolittle, a character created by Lofting in
letters written to his wife and children at home while he served in
the Great War. Beloved by generations of adults and children for
their imaginative nature and moral worldview, Lofting's books have
inspired numerous adaptations for theater, film, and television.
Doctor John Dolittle is an ordinary physician with an extraordinary
gift. Renowned for his ability to communicate with animals,
Dolittle has made a name for himself as a traveling veterinarian
with a generous heart and a courageous spirit. On the West Coast of
Africa, he finds himself enlisted to help rescue the captives on an
illegal slave ship, earning him the respect of the people of
Fantippo. There, he befriends King Koko, who encourages him to open
the small kingdom's first postal service, allowing them to
communicate with distant continents using thousands of migratory
birds. Told in episodic fashion, and with each episode containing
wilder and more wonderful adventures than the next, Lofting's novel
features a lost island filled with prehistoric beasts, the
invention of an alphabet for animals, and a tortoise who has been
alive since before the Great Flood. Doctor Dolittle's Post Office
is a delightful work of fantasy for children and adults alike. With
a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle's Post Office is a
classic of English children's fiction reimagined for modern
readers.
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