Signet Classics: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (Paperback)

from Abbyu1.B3

In this book a boy called Stubbins tells the story. Stubbins has found an injured animal. He is told of an amazing doctor called 'Dolittle" that can talk to animals. He visits this doctor, who is a naturalist, and later asks if he can become a naturalist too. When Dolittle agrees, they go on a vo...

from fyrefly98

Summary: In The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, the now-famous Doctor who speaks the language of animals, takes on a young apprentice, Tommy Stubbins, who narrates this tale. Matters in the small town of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh keep Doctor Dolittle busy enough, but when he receives word that Long Arrow...

from SHARONTHEIL

Hugh Lofting was a prolific author, poet, and artist. He wrote and illustrated thirteen Doctor Dolittle books, which he began in the trenches of WWI as stories for his own children. These books have generated some controversy over the years because of certain wording and characterizations that ar...

from ElizaJane

In this second book of the series we meet Tommy Stubbins, the boy who becomes Dolittle's assistant. Once again Dolittle sets off on a voyage this time to meet the great botanist Long Arrow, son of Golden Arrow and along the way they meet many side adventures. Dolittle becomes set on learning the ...

from Abbyu1.B3

In this book a boy called Stubbins tells the story. Stubbins has found an injured animal. He is told of an amazing doctor called 'Dolittle" that can talk to animals. He visits this doctor, who is a naturalist, and later asks if he can become a naturalist too. When Dolittle agrees, they go on a vo...