Gub Gub's Book: An Encyclopaedia of Food (1932) is purportedly written by the pig.

Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures (1952).

Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary (1950).

Doctor Dolittle and the Secret Lake (copyrighted 1923, but not published until 1948).

Gub Gub's Book: An Encyclopaedia of Food (1932).

Doctor Dolittle Meets a Londoner in Paris (1925).

The stories, in order of publication, are: Five more novels followed, and after Lofting's death in 1947, two more volumes of short, previously unpublished pieces appeared. The next three, Doctor Dolittle's Post Office (1923), Doctor Dolittle's Circus (1924), and Doctor Dolittle's Caravan (1926) take place during and/or after the events of The Story of Doctor Dolittle. The sequel The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (1922) won the prestigious Newbery Medal. The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts Never Before Printed (1920) begins the series. One inspiration for his character appears to be the Scottish surgeon John Hunter. Later on, in the 1925 novel Doctor Dolittle's Zoo, Whitey founds (with the doctor's help) the Rat and Mouse Club, whose membership eventually reaches some 5,000 rats and mice. The animal team includes Polynesia (a parrot), Gub-Gub (a pig), Jip (a dog), Dab-Dab (a duck), Chee-Chee (a monkey), Too-Too (an owl), the Pushmi-pullyu, and a white mouse later named simply 'Whitey'. ĭoctor Dolittle has a few close human friends, including Tommy Stubbins and Matthew Mugg, the Cats'-Meat Man. The stories are set in early Victorian England, where Doctor John Dolittle lives in the fictional English village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh in the West Country. ĭoctor Dolittle first appeared in the author's illustrated letters to his children, written from the trenches during World War I when actual news, he later said, was either too horrible or too dull. He later becomes a naturalist, using his abilities to speak with animals to better understand nature and the history of the world.

He is a physician who shuns human patients in favour of animals, with whom he can speak in their own languages.

Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting starting with the 1920 The Story of Doctor Dolittle.

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