Hugh Lofting

Doctor Dolittle's Post Office (1920) is a children's fantasy novel by Hugh Lofting. The novel is the third in a series of fifteen books featuring Doctor Dolittle, a character created by Lofting in letters written to his wife and children at home while he served in the Great War. Beloved by generations of adults and children for their imaginative nature and moral worldview, Lofting's books have inspired numerous adaptations for theater, film, and television. Doctor...

Freshly returned from his voyages Doctor Dolittle decides to expand his zoo to include a home for crossbred dogs and a club for rodents. The Doctor's Zoo is unlike any other zoo in the world. In his zoo there are no cages; the animals stay there voluntarily and are free to leave whenever they want. While expanding the zoo the doctor takes some time to solve a mystery with the aid of Kling, the Dog Detective. Another wonder adventure with the great’s...

In this first book in the series, Doctor Dolittle discovers that he can talk to the animals-Jip the dog, Dab Dab the duck, Polynesia the parrot.

Prepare to set sail for many grand adventures with the delightful Doctor Dolittle. This omnibus editions includes the Doctor's first four books: 'The Story of Doctor Dolittle', 'The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle', 'Doctor Dolittle's Post Office', and 'Doctor Dolittle's Circus'. Over six hundred pages of exotic animals, pirates, circuses, and of course the marvelous Doctor Dolittle who can talk with animals. This edition contains hundreds of Lofting's...

Het huis van dokter Dolittle begint zo langzamerhand een echte dierentuin te worden, door de vele dieren die hem opzoeken en bij hem willen blijven wonen. In dit vijfde deel van de serie over de dokter die met dieren kan praten bouw Dolittle allerlei nieuwe dierenverblijven aan en rond zijn huis. Daarnaast ontmoet hij de hond Kling, die als detective werkt. Samen met Kling gaat dokter Dolittle op avontuur om een raadsel op te lossen.

Freshly returned from his voyages Doctor Dolittle decides to expand his zoo to include a home for crossbred dogs and a club for rodents. The Doctor's Zoo is unlike any other zoo in the world. In his zoo there are no cages; the animals stay there voluntarily and are free to leave whenever they want. While expanding the zoo the doctor takes some time to solve a mystery with the aid of Kling, the Dog Detective. Another wonder adventure with the greats...

Dierendokter Dolittle spreekt de dierentaal en heeft zijn leven gewijd aan het helpen van dieren. Hij heeft een gezin dat bestaat uit verschillende dieren. In Het circus van Doctor Dolittle (1924) sluiten hij en zijn gezin zich aan bij een circus, waardoor hij in de meest fantastische avonturen verzeild raakt. Op een dag gaat de circusdirecteur er met al het verdiende geld vandoor, Dolittle wordt dan aangesteld ter vervanging. Er breken gouden tijden...

In deel negen van de serie pakken we het verhaal van de met dieren pratende dokter weer op waar het is opgehouden aan het eind van Doctor Dolittle op de maan. Terwijl dokter Dolittle nog op de maan zit, wachten zijn vrienden op aarde in spanning af of hij veilig terug zal keren. Ze zijn razend benieuwd naar alle spannende verhalen die hij te vertellen heeft. Maar dokter Dolittle wil van die verhalen graag een boek maken, en hij komt maar niet aan...

Doctor Dolittle loves animals. In fact, he loves animals so much that his cozy cottage in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh is bursting with pets: goldfish in the pond, rabbits in the pantry, white mice in the piano, a squirrel in the linen closet, a hedgehog in the cellar, not to mention a horse, chickens and pigeons, two lambs, and many others. But his favorite pets by far are Dab-Dab the duck, Jip the dog, Gub-Gub the baby pig, Polynesia the parrot, and Too-Too...

Doctor Dolittle, the man who can speak with the animals, is back home but running short of money to care for all the animals who need his help. He invites animals into his garden and encourages them to build their own societies and come and go as they please. This works very well. He has a mouse and rat town, a dog community, a burrow for badgers, and so forth. This does not make any money and only gets him into trouble with his neighbors. But the...