The Story of Doctor Dolittle
The Story of Doctor Dolittle is a 1920 book about Doctor John Dolittle and his animals.[1] This book is the first in a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting. The Story of Doctor Dolittle is about a doctor who can speak with the animals in their own languages. He starts treating animals instead of human patients.
The book is set in Victorian England.[2] Dolittle lives in the English village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh in the West Country. He has many friends, like Tommy Stubbins and Matthew Mugg, the Cats'-Meat Man. His house is filled with animals. He owns a parrot called Polynesia, a pig called Gub-Gub, a dog called Jip, a duck called Dab-Dab, a monkey called Chee-Chee, an owl called Too-Too, and a white mouse named "Whitey". He also owns a gazelle-unicorn cross called "pushmi-pullyu" ("push-me—pull-you") that has two heads, one at the back and one at the front of the body. The doctor in this first book takes a ship to Africa to cure the animals there.
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