Hugh Lofting's (1886–1947) books about Doctor Dolittle have been read by children all over the world for seven decades. To some extent, this famous character...

The heroes of Hugh Lofting's fairy tales are well known to our children from the books of Korney Chukovsky, who retold some of them. Only the names of the ch...

The charming story of Pippinella, the green canary, as told by Pip herself to the Doctor. Although much of the material had been printed originally in 192...

When he discovers that animals from all over the world want to communicate with each other, Dr Dolittle has the wonderful idea of setting up the Swallow M...

The doctor needs money to pay off a voyage to Africa, so he joins the circus with the pushmi-pullyu as his attraction. He enlightens a circus owner who ca...

Doctor Dolittle’s Garden is structurally the most disorganised of Hugh Lofting’s Doctor Dolittle books. The first part would fit very well into Doctor Dol...

Doctor Dolittle’s Return is lighter and more comic than other Dolittle books. Tommy Stubbins waits for Doctor Dolittle’s return from the Moon. When the Do...