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• author:Hugh Lofting
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• Text language:english
• Number of pages:336
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title:The voyages of Doctor Dolittle/Dr. Doolittles voyage
Readers:8-12year
Difficulty:LexileLance reading index930L
Author:Hugh LoftingHugh Lofting
Name of publishing house:Yearling
Published:1988
Language: English
ISBN:9780440400028
Product size:13.2 x 2.0 x 19.3 cm
Packing: paperback
Number of pages:336

The Voyages of Doctor DolittleThe voyage of doctor DoolittleThe fairy tale works of lovtin, an American childrens writer, have won the gold medal of the Newbury childrens literature award and have been put on the screen many times. Dr. Doolittles whole journey, through all kinds of thrills, is full of ups and downs, poetry and a sense of humor. The language and illustrations in the book are so funny and cute. Therefore, this book is not only popular with children, but also loved by many adults. It is considered to be an outstanding childrens literature classic after Alice in Wonderland. Dr. Doolittles loving deeds have deeply touched the animals, and the whole animal world can go through fire and water for Dr. Doolittle; At the same time, it also deeply infected all people who have read these stories.

Reasons for recommendation:
1. Gold medal works of the Newbury childrens literature award, which is a required reading for American primary and secondary school students;
2. The story is full of fantasy, involving knowledge of geography, history, biology, astronomy, navigation and other aspects;
3. Original English version, with illustrations and paper eye protection.

★ the voyage of doctor Doolittle was recommended by Cao Wenxuan, the winner of the international Andersen prize in 2016
★ the voyage of Dr. Doolittle is the gold medal work of the Newbury childrens literature award
★ Dr. Doolittles voyages is a required reading for American primary and secondary school students
★ doctor Doolittles voyage is highly praised and recommended by Chinese fairy tale writer Zhang Tianyi
★ doctor Doolittles voyage is known as the first real childrens literature classic after Alice in Wonderland
★ the voyage of Dr. Doolittle is known as "a masterpiece suitable for children all over the world"
★ in the voyage of doctor Doolittle, which is the real doctor Doolittle? The king who catches butterflies with a crown, the English gentleman who wears a bull fight in full dress, and the naturalist who studies shellfish in the water?
The classic Newbery Medal winner that was transformed into a beloved film.
Doctor Dolittle heads for the high seas in perhaps the most amazing adventure ever experienced by man or animal!
Told by 9-and-a-half-year-old Tommy Stubbins, crewman and future naturalist, Doctor Dolittle and company survive a perilous shipwreck and land on the mysterious, floating Spidermonkey Island. There he meets the Great Glass Sea Snail who holds the key to the biggest mystery of all.

Tommy stubbins, a little boy, met the famous doctor Doolittle by chance and was lucky to become his assistant. Before long, Doolittle decided to take Tommy and his animal friends to the distant island of spiders and apes to find another Longge in the field of natural science. There they rescued Longge and his people trapped in the cave, and resolved the hatred between the two rival tribes. Dr. Doolittles feats moved the clansmen of the two tribes. They elected a doctor to be the king of spider ape island. The kings position distressed the doctors who naturally loved natural history research. Later, a magical creature appeared on the beach - the giant conch - saved him from the sea of misery
Doctor Dolittle heads for the high seas in perhaps the most amazing adventure ever experienced by man or animal. Told by nine-and-a-half-year-old Tommy Stubbins, crewman and future naturalist, the voyages of Doctor Dolittle and his company lead them to Spidermonkey Island. Along with his faithful friends, Polynesia the parrot and Chee-Chee the monkey, Doctor Dolittle survives a perilous shipwreck and lands on the mysterious floating island. There he meets the wondrous Great Glass See Snail who holds the key to the greates mystery of all.

Hugh Lofting (1886~1947), an American writer of childrens literature and illustrator, was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England in 1886. He became an American citizen as a teenager. He studied at Massachusetts Institute of technology in the United States and London University of technology in the United Kingdom. After graduation, he became an architectural engineer and railway engineer. During the first World War, Hugh lovtin served in the military. He strongly opposed war and violence. In order to alleviate the depression brought by the war, lovtin wrote letters and told stories to the children at home, creating a fat animal doctor - Doolittle. So the "story of Dr. Doolittle" came out. He wrote a total of 12 works with Dr. Doolittle as the protagonist in his life, and won the Newbury childrens Literature Award in 1922, becoming a writer with high reputation all over the world.
As loveting was an engineer in his early years and had rich life experience, his works are highly knowledgeable. In the story full of fantasy, the knowledge of geography, history, biology, astronomy, navigation and other aspects is involved, which provides more nourishment for childrens reading.
Hugh Loftingwas born in 1886 in Maidenhead, Berkshire. His Doctor Dolittle books first appeared on paper in the form of letters to his children, Elizabeth and Colin. Lofting wrote a number of children’s books besides the Dolittle series, includingThe Story of Mrs. Tubbs(1923),Tommy, Tilly and Mrs. Tubbs (1936),Porridge Poetry (1924),The Twilight of Magic (1930), andGub Gub’s Book (1932). Lofting also wrote one book for adults,Victory for the Slain (1942). He died in 1947 in Santa Monica, California.

My name was Tommy Stubbins, son of Jacob Stubbins, the cobbler of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh; I was nine and a half years old. At that time Puddleby was only quite a small town. A river ran through the middle of it; and over this river there was a very old stone bridge, called Kingsbridge, which led you from the market-place on one side to the churchyard on the other.
Sailing-ships came up this river from the sea and anchored near the bridge. I used to go down and watch the sailors unloading the ships upon the river-wall. The sailors sang strange songs as they pulled upon the ropes; and I learned these songs by heart. And I would sit on the river-wall with my feet dangling over the water and sing with the men, pretending to myself that I too was a sailor.
For I longed always to sail away with those brave ships when they turned their backs on Puddleby Church and went creeping down the river again, across the wide lonely marshes to the sea. I longed to go with them out into the world to seek my fortune in foreign lands—Africa, India, China and Peru! When they got round the bend in the river and the water was hidden from view, you could still see their huge brown sails towering over the roofs of the town, moving onward slowly—like some gentle giants that walked among the houses without noise. What strange things would they have seen, I wondered, when next they came back to anchor at Kingsbridge! And, dreaming of the lands I had never seen, I’d sit on there, watching till they were out of sight.
Three great friends I had in Puddleby in those days. One was Joe, the mussel-man, who lived in a tiny hut by the edge of the water under the bridge. This old man was simply marvelous at making things. I never saw a man so clever with his hands. He used to mend my toy ships for me which I sailed upon the river; he built windmills out of packing-cases and barrel-staves; and he could make the most wonderful kites from old umbrellas.
Joe would sometimes take me in his mussel-boat, and when the tide was running out we would paddle down the river as far as the edge of the sea to get mussels and lobsters to sell. And out there on the cold lonely marshes we would see wild geese flying, and curlews and redshanks and many other kinds of seabirds that live among the samfire and the long grass of the great salt fen. And as we crept up the river in the evening, when the tide had turned, we would see the lights on Kingsbridge twinkle in the dusk, reminding us of tea-time and warm fires.