英文原版19-The Story of Dr.Dolittle(怪医杜利德)

Dr Dolittle is a country doctor who loves animals In face he fills his house with so many of them that his human patients。 don't want to visit hin any more, But he isn't bohtered, because he prefers anlmaIs to people and, with the help of his pet parrot polynesia,he has been learning how to talk to animals
One day ,he gets a mysterious call telling him to come to Africa to save a pack of monkeys fron a strange sickness .When he gets there he learns many new animal Ianguages and makes loads of two-and four-leggIed friends(plus a few with no legs at all) But what is the real reason he Was called to Africa?
Funny and thought-provoking ,this tale have everyone trying to talk to their pets.

Hugh Lofting was born in Maidenhead Berkshire in 1886 and originally trained as a civil engineer in 1912 ,he emigrated to the United States and the Dr.Dolittle stories for which he would become famous began as a series of letters he wrote to his children while serving in the First World War
The Story of Dr. Dolittle was first published in 1920,and before his death in 1974 he had written and illustrated more than twenty other Dr. Dolittle adventures.His animal-loving doctor travilled to the animal-loving doctor travelled to the moom,took up with a cirvus and solved many mysteries all over the world
A new generation of children discovered the books after seeing the 1967 hit film Dr.