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...

Do you want to listen to The Story of Doctor Dolittle? If so then keep reading... Doctor Dolittle is one of kind. Not only can he talk to animals-but he can understand them too! One day Doctor Dolittle receives a message from Africa-the monkeys there need his help. So he sails off from his home, bringing along all his pals: Dab-Dab, the duck; Jip, the dog; Gub-Gub, the baby pig; Polynesia, the parrot; and Too-Too, the owl. Join the doctor and his...

The doctor who can talk to the animals makes some mind-blowing lunar discoveries in this spacefaring adventure from the Newbery Medal–winning author.   On the back of a gigantic moth, John Dolittle and his companions travel through space from London to the moon. And they make an interesting landing party indeed. There's the esteemed doctor and naturalist, his secretary Thomas Stubbins, Polynesia the parrot, and Chee-Chee the monkey. Though...

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...

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...

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...

"Then John Dolittle got a fine, big pair of green spectacles; and the plow-horse stopped going blind in one eye and could see as well as ever. And soon it became a common sight to see farm-animals wearing glasses in the country round Puddleby, and a blind horse was a thing unknown." Doctor Dolittle and his friends travel to South America to meet the greatest naturalist in the New World. A note to listeners: This book was written at a different time,...

A brief, simplified retelling of the episode in "Doctor Dolittle" in which a crocodile runs away from the circus to get help from the physician-turned-veterinarian, who gives him back his smile.

Doctor Dolittle and his animal friends listen as Pippinella the canary relates her exciting adventures as a cage bird and her quest to be free.

A brief, simplified retelling of the episode in "Doctor Dolittle" during which the physician-turned-veterinarian is caught in a storm and shipwrecked while trying to bring the circus crocodile home to Africa.