Hugh Lofting

Hugh Lofting's tales of Doctor Dolittle, the kind and eccentric naturalist who can speak with the animals, have been classics of children's literature for a century. The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle has been fully updated for the modern reader by the author's son, Christopher Lofting. Doctor Dolittle heads for the high seas in another amazing adventure and takes nine-and-a-half-year-old Tommy...

Dr. Dolittle's Caravan tells the story of Doctor Dolittle's Circus, which is facing hard times. In search of a new attraction to revitalise the show, the Doctor discovers Pippinella, a canary with the most beautiful voice he's ever heard. This remarkable find seems to be the solution to the circus's problems at first. However, not everyone is content. Dab-Dab the...

Doctor Dolittle has been beloved by children for more a century and will soon come to life again in the new movie, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle.The famous doctor who can speak to animals first appeared in Hugh Lofting's letters to his children during World War I and then later commercially in The Story of Doctor Dolittle, the first book in Lofting's...