Hugh Lofting: 62 books

The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle—the major motion picture starring Robert Downey Jr.—soars into theaters on January 17, 2020**!** Hugh Lofting’s tales of Doctor Dolittle, the kind and eccentric naturalist who can speak with the animals, have been classics of children’s literature for a...

The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle—the major motion picture starring Robert Downey Jr.—soars into theaters on January 17, 2020! Hugh Lofting’s tales of Doctor Dolittle, the kind and eccentric naturalist who can speak with the animals, have been classics of children’s literature for a century....

Doctor Dolittle’s Post Office is the 3rd of the Doctor Dolittle illustrated stories by Hugh Lofting. The story is accompanied by 77 pen and ink drawings also done by Lofting. These have been strategically placed throughout the book to keep young minds interested in the story. Set on the West Coast...

A collection of eleven Newbery Award winning books with an active table of contents to help you easily find the book you are looking for."The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived" by Padraic Colum"The Great Quest" by Charles Boardman Hawes"It's Like This, Cat" Emily Neville"The Old Tobacco Shop"...

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle was the second of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books to be published, coming out in 1922. It is nearly four times longer than its predecessor and the writing style is pitched at a more mature audience. The scope of the novel is vast; it is divided into six parts...

Hugh Lofting's beloved story of the doctor who can talk to animals has long enchanted children. Though his fondness for pets drives away all his human patients, as a veterinarian, Doctor Doolittle has the magic touch. Join him, Polynesia, Jip the dog, Dab-Dab the duck, and the rest of his furry and feathered...

Contain The Great Quest by Charles Boardman Hawes (1921) The Golden Fleece - And The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum (1922) The Old Tobacco Shop, A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen (1921) The Story of Mankind by Hendrik van Loon (1921)...

Collection of 3 Classic Books: Prince Prigio by Andrew Lang. Prince Ricardo Of Pantouflia by Andrew Lang. The Story Of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting.

Doctor Dolittle is a very special vet—because he knows how to talk to the animals!  So when he hears that there’s a terrible sickness hurting all the monkeys in Africa, the good doctor knows he must go and help them. Soon he’s off on an exciting adventure across the seas in this superb retelling of Hugh Lofting’s beloved classic.

“Doctor Dolittle had now been in the moon for a little over a year. During that time I, as his secretary, had been in charge of his household at Puddleby–on–the–Marsh. Of course a boy of my age could not take the great man's place—nobody could, for that matter. But I did my best. At...

Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting starting in 1920 with, "The Story of Doctor Dolittle." He is a doctor who shuns human patients in favour of animals, with whom he can speak in their own languages. He later becomes a naturalist,...

“In writing the story of our adventures in the Moon I, Thomas Stubbins, secretary to John Dolittle, M.D. (and son of Jacob Stubbins, the cobbler of Puddleby–on–the–Marsh), find myself greatly puzzled. It is not an easy task, remembering day by day and hour by hour those crowded and exciting...

The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts (1920), composed and illustrated by Hugh Lofting, is the first of his Doctor Dolittle books, a series of children's novels about a man who learns to talk to animals and becomes...

"The Twilight of Magic" was written in 1931 by Hugh Lofting (1886-1947), telling about the Middle Ages, when adults and children alike still believed in magic. The tale is full of castles, kings, cavalcades of knights and princesses. The main characters Giles and Anne are nine-year-old twins...