The Story of Doctor Dolittle
$24.50
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
30 December 2019
Summary
Doctor Dolittle isn’t a normal doctor… He doesn’t treat humans - he treats animals instead! He loves animals so much that his busy house in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh is full of every creature imaginable - from parrots to pigs, monkeys to dogs and many more - and very soon he even learns how to speak their language.
The doctor’s animal friends are quick to tell him that the monkeys in Africa have become infected with a terrible disease, so with a team of trusty creatures by his side the ki…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781509885718 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1509885714 |
| Author: | Hugh Lofting |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Macmillan Children's Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 30 December 2019 |
| Weight: | 146g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Macmillan Children's Books Paperback Classics |
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About The Author
Hugh Lofting
Hugh Lofting was born in Maidenhead in 1886. He studied engineering in London and America and his work as a civil engineer took him all over the world. He interrupted his career to enlist in the army and fight in the First World War. Wanting to shield his children from the horrors of combat, including the fate of horses on the battlefield, 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 twelve more in the series. The highly acclaimed author died in 1947.
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