Hugh Lofting

When his colleague Long Arrow disappears, Dr. Dolittle sets off with his assistant, Tommy Stubbins, his dog, Jip, and Polynesia the parrot on an adventurous voyage over tropical seas to floating Spidermonkey Island.

There are some of us now reaching middle age who discover themselves to be lamenting the past in one respect if in none other, that there are no books written now for children comparable with those of thirty years ago. I say written FOR children because the new psychological business of writing ABOUT them as though they were small pills or hatched in some especially scientific method is extremely popular today.

Doctor Dolittle is on the moon, where he finds a whole new world of animals and vegetables to study.

The complete life story of Pippinella, which was not described in Doctor Dolittle's Caravan. Hugh Lofting had written almost all of this book before he passed away. His sister-in-law Olga Michaels provided the first and last chapters to complete it.

An introduction to Doctor Dolittle's world of animals, including selections from eight of Lofting's books about him and many of the author's original drawings.

When Mrs. Tubbs is turned out of her home, Ponk, Punk, and Pink, her loyal animals, seek a way to reclaim their mistress' rightful residence.

In the days when magic was on the wane, a little boy in possession of a magic whispering shell does a service for his young king.

Doctor Dolittle establishes a swallow mail service for the animals when he discovers that they have their own way of writing.

John Dolittle takes his circus to London, where with the help of the canary Pippinella he stages a bird opera.

Doctor Dolittle's garden is teeming with insects, including a giant moth from a world beyond earth.