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Doctor Dolittle's Circus


Doctor Dolittle

No. of pages 228

Published: 2012

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Great for age 0-13 years

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In Doctor Dolittle's Circus the doctor needs money to pay off a voyage to Africa, so he joins a circus with the pushmi-pullyu as his attraction. He enlightens a circus owner who cares little for animals, fights against the practice of fox hunting and helps other creatures such as a circus seal and cart horses that is too old to work. Hugh John Lofting was a British author who created the character of Doctor Dolittle - one of the classics of children's literature. His early education was at Mount St. Mary's College in Sheffield, after which he went to the United States, completing a degree in civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He enlisted in the Irish Guards to serve in World War I. Not wishing to write to his children of the brutality of the war, he wrote imaginative letters that were the foundation of the Doctor Dolittle novels.

 

This book is part of a book series called Doctor Dolittle .

This book has been graded for interest at 9-12 years.

There are 228 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by Bottom of the Hill Publishing .

Best known for his Doctor Dolittle books, Hugh Lofting (1886-1947) first had the idea for his unusual country doctor while writing to his children from the front during the First World War. The twelve books that followed are loved by children across the globe.

This book is in the following series:

Puffin Storybooks

Bbc Radio Collection

Doctor Dolittle
This series by Hugh Lofting is about a doctor who can talk to animals and who devotes his time to treating those animals rather than human patients. The stories are set in early Victorian England, in the fictional village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh in the West Country.

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