Lofting, Hugh: Doctor Dolittle’s Garden (illus). v2. 03 May 2018
 

Doctor Dolittle’s Garden --- Told and Illustrated by Hugh Lofting (1886 – 1947)

This book was first published in 1927. Text and illustrations are in the public domain in countries where copyright is “Life+70” or less.


More adventures of the eccentric country physician with a bent for natural history and a great love of animals. Doctor Dolittle's garden is teeming with insects, so he is determined to learn the insect languages, and soon hears some fascinating stories. None is more intriguing than the tale of the giant moths, and he decides to seek them out. But before he can set out, he is amazed when one arrives in his garden – on a mission to bring the Doctor to the Moon!

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British author Hugh John Lofting (14 January 1886 – 26 September 1947) created the character of Doctor Dolittle, one of the classics of children’s literature. The Doctor first appeared in Lofting’s illustrated letters to his children, written from the trenches while he was serving in the British Army during World War I. The stories (a series of twelve books, the final two completed and published posthumously) are set in early Victorian England. The second in the series, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (1922), won Lofting the prestigious Newbery Medal.

Despite the author’s obviously benign posture, the books became a target of controversy in the 1960’s amid accusations of racism and attitudes of colonialism, and went out of print in the USA for some time. Later editions in the 1980’s were bowdlerized to remove offending content and illustrations. The Doctor and the tales of his adventures are better known today through movie and television adaptations.
(—Extracted and adapted from Wikipedia.)


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This ebook is based on a transcription obtained from Project Gutenberg Australia. No scan of the physical book is available. Images of vintage cover, titlepage, and endpapers have been included. Embedded font for titling. To provide consistency throughout this series of ten books, some punctuation and spelling was standardized.


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