by Hugh Lofting · Espasa-Calpe SA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423927333
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«La Historia del Doctor Dolittle» is Hugh Lofting's children's novel, published by Espasa-Calpe in paperback (179 pages, in Spanish).
Doctor Dolittle is an unusual doctor with so many animals at home that his human patients stop visiting him. He then discovers his calling in healing animals and learns to speak their languages; when the monkeys in Africa fall ill, he sets sail with his motley animal company on a series of surprising adventures.
Austral Juvenil collection, number 33, with illustrations by the author and translation by Amalia Martín-Gamero.
Recommended for young readers aged 9 and up looking for a classic children's adventure story with animals.
Hugh John Lofting was an English-American writer, trained as a civil engineer, who created the classic children's literature character Doctor Dolittle. The fictional physician talking to animals, based in an English village, first appeared in illustrated letters to his children which Lofting sent from British Army trenches in the First World War. Lofting settled in the United States soon after the war and before his first book was published.
