Hugh Lofting Books In Order

Doctor Dolittle Books In Publication Order

  1. The Story of Doctor Dolittle / Doctor Dolittle (1920)
  2. The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle / Doctor Dolittle and the Pirates (1922)
  3. Doctor Dolittle’s Post Office (1923)
  4. Doctor Dolittlea s Circus (1924)
  5. Doctor Dolittle’s Zoo (1925)
  6. Doctor Dolittle’s Caravan (1926)
  7. Doctor Dolittle’s Garden (1927)
  8. Doctor Dolittle in the Moon (1928)
  9. Gub Gub’s Book (1932)
  10. Doctor Dolittle’s Return (1933)
  11. Doctor Dolittle’s Birthday Book (1936)
  12. Doctor Dolittle and the Secret Lake (1948)
  13. Dr. Dolittle And The Green Canary (1950)
  14. Doctor Dolittle’s Puddleby Adventure (1952)
  15. The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (2008)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Twilight of Magic (1930)
  2. Doctor Dolittle’s Animals (1998)
  3. Doctor Dolittle to the Rescue (1999)
  4. Doctor Dolittle in Trouble (2000)
  5. Doctor Dolittle Saves the Day (2000)
  6. Doctor Dolittle and the Lighthouse (2000)
  7. Doctor Dolittle’s First Adventure (2000)
  8. Doctor Dolittle Takes Charge (2000)
  9. Doctor Dolittle’s Ambulance (2000)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. Doctor Dolittle Stories (1998)

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The Story of Doctor Dolittle / Doctor Dolittle

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www. 1stWorldLibrary. ORG There are some of us now reaching middle age who discover themselves to be lamenting the past in one respect if in none other, that there are no books written now for children comparable with those of thirty years ago. I say written FOR children because the new psychological business of writing ABOUT them as though they were small pills or hatched in some especially scientific method is extremely popular today. Writing for children rather than about them is very difficult as everybody who has tried it knows. It can only be done, I am convinced, by somebody having a great deal of the child in his own outlook and sensibilities. Such was the author of ‘The Little Duke’ and ‘The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest,’ such the author of ‘A Flatiron for a Farthing,’ and ‘The Story of a Short Life.’ Such, above all, the author of ‘Alice in Wonderland.’ Grownups imagine that they can do the trick by adopting baby language and talking down to their very critical audience. There never was a greater mistake. The imagination of the author must be a child’s imagination and yet maturely consistent, so that the White Queen in ‘Alice,’ for instance, is seen just as a child would see her, but she continues always herself through all her distressing adventures. The supreme touch of the white rabbit pulling on his white gloves as he hastens is again absolutely the child’s vision, but the white rabbit as guide and introducer of Alice’s adventures belongs to mature grown insight.

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle / Doctor Dolittle and the Pirates

PROLOGUE
A LL that I have written so far about
Doctor Dolittle I heard long after it
happened from those who had known
him-indeed a great deal of it took
place before I was born. But I now come to set
down that part of the great man’s life which I.
myself saw and took part in.
Many years ago the Doctor gave me permission
to do this. But ‘we were both of us so busy then
voyaging around the world, having adventures and
filling note-books full of natural history that I
never seemed to get time to sit down and write of
our doings.
N ow of course, when I am quite an old man,
my memory isn’t so good any more. But whenever
I am in doubt and have to hesitate and think, I
always ask Polynesia, the parrot.
Tha t wonderful bird she is now nearly two
hundred and fifty years old sits on the top of my
desk, usually humming sailor songs to herself, while
I write this book. And, as everyone who ever met
her knows, Polynesia’s memory is the most marvel
1

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; PART ONE; C}{ArTER; PROLOGUE ; I THE COBBLER’S S01′; II I HEAR Of THE GREAT NATURALIST; III THE DOCTOR’S HOME; IV THE ‘VVn’F-VAFF; V POLY~’ESIA – -; VI THE VOU!’lDl:W SQUIRREL; VII SHELLFISH TALK -; VIII ARE You A GOOD NOTICER?; IX THE GARDEl’ OF DREAiIS ,; X THE PRIVATE ZOO; XI 1J Y SCHOOL~1ASTER, POLYNESIA; XII 1,1y GREAT IDEA; XIII A TRAVELER ARRIVES; XIV CHEE-CHEE’S VOYAGe; XV I BECOlIE A DOCTOR’s ASSISTANT -; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VB; vrrr; IX; X; XI; PART TVO; THE CREW OF ‘THE CURLEW’; LUKE THE HERMIT; TIP AI’D THE SECRET; BOB; 1/1 El’DOZA ; TH E JUDGE’S DOG; THE EKD OF THE ilYSTElty; THREE CHEERS -; THE PURPLE 1

Doctor Dolittlea s Circus

Although at first he plans only to exhibit the Pushmi pullyu, John Dolittle soon becomes manager of a very special circus.

Doctor Dolittle’s Caravan

John Dolittle takes his circus to London, where with the help of the canary Pippinella he stages a bird opera.

Doctor Dolittle’s Garden

CONTENTS: PART ONE I. THE DOG MUSEUM 2. QUETCH 3. THE DICK WHITTINGTON DOG 4. THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITALITY 5. GIPSY LIFE 6. THE ACROBAT 7. THE MONASTERY 8. THE SHEPHERD IN DISTRESS 9. CITY LIFE 10. THE HERMIT DOG 11. THE TOP KNOT TERRIERS 12. DOGS’ JOBSPART TWO I. INSECT LANGUAGES 2. FOREIGN INSECTS 3. TANGERINE 4. DOMESTIC INSECTS 5. THE WATER BEETLE 6. THE END OF THE JOURNEY 7. THE COLONY OF EXILES 8. A LIFETIME OF TWENTY FOUR HOURS 9. DAB DAB’S VIEWS ON INSECT LIFE 10. THE GIANT MOTHS II. OTHO THE PREHISTORIC ARTIST 12. ‘THE DAYS BEFORE THERE WAS A MOON’ 13. MEMORIES OF LONG ARROW 14. BLIND TRAVEL AGAIN 15. GUB GUB HALTS THE GAMEPART THREE 1. BUMPO AND MAGIC 2. THE TAPPING ON THE WINDOW 3. THE GIANT RACE 4. THE AWAKENING OF THE GIANT 5. KEEPING A SECRET 6. THE BUTTERFLIES’ PARADISE 7. THE HOME OF THE GIANT MOTH 8. FLOWERS OF MYSTERY 9. SMOKE ON THE MOON 10. TOO TOO’S WARNING 11. OUR MIDNIGHT VISITORSPART FOUR 1. BUMPO CLEARS THE GARDEN 2. THE MOUNTED POLICE 3. THE ERRAND 4. THE STOWAWAY 5. THE DOCTOR’S RECEPTION 6. CROSSING ‘THE DEAD BELT’ 7. THE TWO SIDES OF THE MOON 8. THE TREE

Dr. Dolittle And The Green Canary

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

PROLOGUE
A LL that I have written so far about
Doctor Dolittle I heard long after it
happened from those who had known
him-indeed a great deal of it took
place before I was born. But I now come to set
down that part of the great man’s life which I.
myself saw and took part in.
Many years ago the Doctor gave me permission
to do this. But ‘we were both of us so busy then
voyaging around the world, having adventures and
filling note-books full of natural history that I
never seemed to get time to sit down and write of
our doings.
N ow of course, when I am quite an old man,
my memory isn’t so good any more. But whenever
I am in doubt and have to hesitate and think, I
always ask Polynesia, the parrot.
Tha t wonderful bird she is now nearly two
hundred and fifty years old sits on the top of my
desk, usually humming sailor songs to herself, while
I write this book. And, as everyone who ever met
her knows, Polynesia’s memory is the most marvel
1

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; PART ONE; C}{ArTER; PROLOGUE ; I THE COBBLER’S S01′; II I HEAR Of THE GREAT NATURALIST; III THE DOCTOR’S HOME; IV THE ‘VVn’F-VAFF; V POLY~’ESIA – -; VI THE VOU!’lDl:W SQUIRREL; VII SHELLFISH TALK -; VIII ARE You A GOOD NOTICER?; IX THE GARDEl’ OF DREAiIS ,; X THE PRIVATE ZOO; XI 1J Y SCHOOL~1ASTER, POLYNESIA; XII 1,1y GREAT IDEA; XIII A TRAVELER ARRIVES; XIV CHEE-CHEE’S VOYAGe; XV I BECOlIE A DOCTOR’s ASSISTANT -; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VB; vrrr; IX; X; XI; PART TVO; THE CREW OF ‘THE CURLEW’; LUKE THE HERMIT; TIP AI’D THE SECRET; BOB; 1/1 El’DOZA ; TH E JUDGE’S DOG; THE EKD OF THE ilYSTElty; THREE CHEERS -; THE PURPLE 1

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