The Story of Dr. Dolittle

Hugh Lofting

$9.95

Publication Date: September 3rd, 2013

Publisher:

Sterling

ISBN:

9781454905929

Pages:

184

Description

Doctor Dolittle has a unique gift: he knows how to talk with animals of every kind. Join him as he uses his special skills to help a circus crocodile with a toothache; travels to Africa with his brave animal crew to bring the homesick croc back home; and fights off a band of pirates out to steal their ship
"""Previously published as individual chapter books and now gathered into a single volume for the first time

About the Author

Hugh Lofting was born in 1886 in England. He later moved to the United States, where he attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study civil engineering. During WWI, he served in the Irish Guards. Because he did not want to tell his children about the brutality of the fighting in his letters, he wrote them stories instead. These stories became the basis for the popular "Doctor Dolittle" novels. He was wounded in the war, and moved to CT, where he passed away in September 1947.