The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Illustrated

The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Illustrated - Paperback

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The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Illustrated - Paperback

The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Illustrated - Paperback

by Hugh Lofting
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Book Overview

by Hugh Lofting (Author)

The Story of Doctor Dolittle, is the first of his Doctor Dolittle books, a series of children's novels about John Dolittle, MD, who is a respected physician and quiet bachelor living with his spinster sister 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...

Number of Pages: 126
Dimensions: 0.27 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN
Publication Date: November 13, 2015
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Story of Doctor Dolittle
Interest Level: Middle Grades, 4-8
Reading Level: 5.1
Point Value: 4
ISBN9781519268617
Author Hugh Lofting
PublisherCreatespace Independent Publishing Platform
GenreChildren
FormatPaperback
PublishedNovember 2015
LanguageENG- English
Pages126
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceKids and Teens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Hugh Lofting

Hugh Lofting was a civil engineer who in World War I. Wanting to shield his children from the horrors of combat, he wrote to them instead about a kindly doctor who could talk to animals. After the war he settled with his family in Connecticut and it was from there that he published his Doctor Dolittle books. The Story of Doctor Dolittle was published in 1920, followed by 12 more in the series.

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