The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
Hugh Lofting
Jan 1922 · Grosset & Dunlap
3.6star
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Doctor Dolittle heads for the high seas in perhaps the most amazing adventure ever experienced by man or animal. Told by nine-and-a-half-year-old Tommy Stubbins, crewman and future naturalist, the voyages of Doctor Dolittle and his company lead them to Spidermonkey Island. Along with his faithful friends, Polynesia the parrot and Chee-Chee the monkey, Doctor Dolittle survives a perilous shipwreck and lands on the mysterious floating island. There he meets the wondrous Great Glass See Snail who holds the key to the greatest mystery of all.
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3.6
886 reviews
Sumanth G
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January 24, 2016
Amazing book. Doctor's character is a very inspiring one. Just imagining someone being able to talk to animals feels so fantastic. I've seen the movie but it's not the same. The story is plain though, characters are not very deep and there's practically no plot, it makes one hell of a bed time story for kids
Phil Stewart
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April 24, 2013
The racial slurs of that day are very distressing. Was going to read it with my mixed race grandson but at 7 I am afraid of his reaction to the language. SAD!
Shyam Prasad
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May 19, 2014
Simple and sweet, this book is a must-read-out-aloud to children. When reading the book though, one has to be mindful of elements of racism which were prevalent at the time this book was written.
About the 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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