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The Story of Doctor Dolittle

The Story of Doctor Dolittle( )
Author: Lofting, Hugh
McKissack, Patricia & Fredrick
Illustrator: Hague, Michael
Afterword by: Glassman, Peter
ISBN:978-0-688-14001-4
Publication Date:Sep 1997
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:HarperCollins
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $27.99
Book Description:

Foreword by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack. Afterword by Peter Glassman.

When a swallow arrives in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh with the news that the monkeys of Africa are ill and only the doctor who talks with animals can save them, Doctor Dolittle and such good friends as Jip, his loyal dog, and Dab-Dab, his housekeeper duck, face their greatest challenge. Together they must sail to Africa, battle a band of cutthroat pirates, flee across a gorge on a bridge made of...
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Book Details
Pages:176
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / General
Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic
Juvenile Fiction / Animals / General
Juvenile Fiction / Classics
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.75 x 9 x 0.58 Inches
Book Weight:1.215 Pounds
Author Biography
Lofting, Hugh (Author)
Hugh Lofting was born in 1866 in Maidenhead, England. He trained as a civil engineer, getting his education from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Polytechnic Institute of London. He worked in Africa, the West Indies and Canada and then settled in New York to become a writer.

The stories about Doctor Dolittle began as letters to his children while overseas in England during World War I, where Lofting served with the British Army. The first Doctor Dolittle book published was "The Story of Doctor Dolittle" in 1920. He wrote thirteen more, winning the Newberry Medal in 1923 for "The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle." Lofting illustrated all of the Dolittle books himself.

In 1967, the Doctor Dolittle books were made into a musical film starring Rex Harrison.

Hugh Lofting died in 1947 at the age of 81.



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