Doctor Dolittle's Circus - Hugh Lofting - B&T 1969

B & T 1969 Kovakansi

Doctor Dolittles Circus, written by Hugh Lofting and published in 1924 by Lippincott, is set in England sometime between the original story and the later voyages narrated by Stubbins.

The doctor needs money to pay off a voyage to Africa, so he joins the circus with the pushmi-pullyu as his attraction. He enlightens a circus owner who cares little for animals, fights against the practice of fox hunting and helps other creatures such as a circus seal and cart horses too old to work.

Illustrated by Hugh Lofting