- Animals, Classic Literature, Children's stories, Fiction
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.
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Warm, classical in form, effortless and cool.
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Hugh Lofting
- First published
- June 1983
- Pages
- 156
- Publisher
- Red Fox, J. B. Lippincott & Co., eBooksLib
- Editions
- 224
- Language
- Japanese, Chinese, German, Polish
- ISBN
- 9781434619303
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“Once upon a time, many years ago-when our grandfathers were little children-there was a doctor; and his name was Dolittle-John Dolittle, M.D. "M.D." means that he was a proper doctor and knew a whole lot.”
Hugh John Lofting was a British author, trained as a civil engineer, who created the character of Doctor Dolittle — one of the classics of children's literature. Hugh Lofting's doctor from Puddleby-on-the-Marsh who could speak to animals first saw light in the author's illustrated letters to children, written from the trenches during World War I when actual news, he later said, was either too horrible or too dull. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Lofting
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