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Can I read The Story of Doctor Dolittle on EtoBox?
The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Lofting, Hugh is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Story of Doctor Dolittle about?
How is this book unique?**Formatted for E-Readers, Unabridged & Original version**. You will find it much more comfortable to read on your device/app. Easy on your eyes. **Includes:** 15 Colored Illustrations and Biography The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts (1920), written 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 their champion around the world.John Dolittle, MD, is a respected physician and quiet bachelor living with his spinster sister in the small English village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh. His love of animals grows over the years and his household menagerie eventually scares off his human clientele, leading to loss of wealth. But after learning the secret of speaking to all animals from his parrot Polynesia, he takes up veterinary practice. His fortunes rise and fall again after a crocodile takes up residence, leading to his sister leaving in disgust with the intention of getting married, but his fame in the animal kingdom spreads throughout the world. He is conscripted into voy
Who reads The Story of Doctor Dolittle?
It is typically read by young readers, and the parents and educators who guide them.
Common subject areas: juvenile, young adult.
- Author
- Lofting, Hugh
- Publisher
- Feedbooks
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- Category
- children's
- Subjects
- Children'S, Juvenile
- Rating
- 3.98 / 5 (37 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14