But he is so sincere and kind we understand exactly why they love him. Indeed, some of the animals seem so much more sensible than the doctor about things like money and housekeeping and business that we feel the doctor would be lost without their help. There is no significant human domination in the relationship - other than that which results because the doctor can cure animals. He really treats them like colleagues on an expedition. I like the way he listenes carefully to what they say and almost always takes their advice. Prince Bumpo, the heir to the throne, is a mooncalf who mistakes fairy tales for real life. The voices of the animals are heard often at greater length than his. When Doctor Dolittle goes to Africa to cure the monkeys, he stumbles into the Kingdom of Jolliginki. Dolittle (which also has a more sophisticated style) (Perhaps Lofting's children were simply older when he wrote the second volume.I particularly enjoyed the character of the doctor, who is somewhat taciturn. The words are easy and the print in this voluem is larger and easier for a child to read to herself than the second volume, the Voyages of Dr. and featuring the voice talents of Emma Thompson.
The sentences are short, declarative sentences, without a lot of description or pacing. The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting: 9780440483076 : Books Dolittle is soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures, starring Robert Downey Jr. It was originally written in the form of letters home to Lofting's children when he was an engineer stationed in Africa during World War I. This is a pretty sraightforward prose style. Dolittle came to learn the language of the animals and made his first trip to Africa to cure the sick monkeys. John Dolittle the beloved doctor is back, but this time around he plays cupid to bumbling circus bear Archie as hes so smitten by a Pacific Western.
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