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Colorists of all ages will delight in this winsome combination of fairies and butterflies. Each of the 16 magical creatures in this gallery sports a pair of wings inspired by the unique patterns of real-life butterflies, including the tiger swallowtail, monarch, and orange albatross. After coloring, the images can be placed near a light source for glowing effects.Tags
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- The Story of Doctor Dolittle
- Doctor Dolittle's Circus
- The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
- Doctor Dolittle's Post Office
- Doctor Dolittle's Caravan
- Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary
- Doctor Dolittle and the Secret Lake
- Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures
- The Story of Doctor Dolittle
- Doctor Dolittle's Circus
- The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
- Doctor Dolittle's Post Office
- Doctor Dolittle's Caravan
- Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary
- Doctor Dolittle and the Secret Lake
- Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures
From the back cover:
"Every boy and girl should meet Doctor Dolittle for the first time in the original stories by High Lofting. They are classics which children enjoy reading themselves (and which parents enjoy reading aloud to younger children)."
"Wherein lies High Lofting's gift to readers of all ages? First, he had a story to tell, and that story was always entertaining.... This explains the inevitable chuckles that accompany the reading of Doctor Dolittle's adventures. Second, Hugh Lofting had a strong belief in the beauty of language.... Thus, when Doctor Dolittle uses a large word, it is the perfect and only word to express his meaning. IT is so used that the child reader is left without the slightest doubt as to its meaning, even show more though he may never have met it before.... Above all, Hugh Lofting understood children."
- The Saturday Review (1/10/48)
Another critic almost twenty years later wrote: " Children know good writing when they see it or hear it, and there is nothing accidental about the continual hold exerted on young listeners by Beatrix Potter, Frank Baum Edward Lear, E.B. White - and other authors who respect a child's right to enjoy a difficult word, even if he doesn't understand it, or to sail away on a flight of the imagination and that carries no guarantee of a safe landing. Of this small company, none so exhilarated me for pure style and Hugh Lofting."
- The New York Times Book Review (11/6/66)
Stories in This Treasury:
* The Story of Doctor Dolittle
* T voyages of Doctor Dolittle
* Doctor Dolittle's Post Office
* Doctor Dolittle's Circus
* Doctor Dolittle's Zoo
* Doctor Dolittle's Caravan
* Doctor Dolittle's Garden
* Doctor Dolittle In the Moon
* Doctor dolittle's Return
* Doctor Dolittle and the Secret Lake
* Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary
* Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures show less
"Every boy and girl should meet Doctor Dolittle for the first time in the original stories by High Lofting. They are classics which children enjoy reading themselves (and which parents enjoy reading aloud to younger children)."
"Wherein lies High Lofting's gift to readers of all ages? First, he had a story to tell, and that story was always entertaining.... This explains the inevitable chuckles that accompany the reading of Doctor Dolittle's adventures. Second, Hugh Lofting had a strong belief in the beauty of language.... Thus, when Doctor Dolittle uses a large word, it is the perfect and only word to express his meaning. IT is so used that the child reader is left without the slightest doubt as to its meaning, even show more though he may never have met it before.... Above all, Hugh Lofting understood children."
- The Saturday Review (1/10/48)
Another critic almost twenty years later wrote: " Children know good writing when they see it or hear it, and there is nothing accidental about the continual hold exerted on young listeners by Beatrix Potter, Frank Baum Edward Lear, E.B. White - and other authors who respect a child's right to enjoy a difficult word, even if he doesn't understand it, or to sail away on a flight of the imagination and that carries no guarantee of a safe landing. Of this small company, none so exhilarated me for pure style and Hugh Lofting."
- The New York Times Book Review (11/6/66)
Stories in This Treasury:
* The Story of Doctor Dolittle
* T voyages of Doctor Dolittle
* Doctor Dolittle's Post Office
* Doctor Dolittle's Circus
* Doctor Dolittle's Zoo
* Doctor Dolittle's Caravan
* Doctor Dolittle's Garden
* Doctor Dolittle In the Moon
* Doctor dolittle's Return
* Doctor Dolittle and the Secret Lake
* Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary
* Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures show less
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Hugh Lofting was born in 1866 in Maidenhead, England. He trained as a civil engineer, getting his education from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Polytechnic Institute of London. He worked in Africa, the West Indies and Canada and then settled in New York to become a writer. The stories about Doctor Dolittle began as letters to show more his children while overseas in England during World War I, where Lofting served with the British Army. The first Doctor Dolittle book published was "The Story of Doctor Dolittle" in 1920. He wrote thirteen more, winning the Newberry Medal in 1923 for "The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle." Lofting illustrated all of the Dolittle books himself. In 1967, the Doctor Dolittle books were made into a musical film starring Rex Harrison. Hugh Lofting died in 1947 at the age of 81. show less
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1967
- Disambiguation notice
- First published as: Doctor Dolittle : A Treasury (1967).
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Kids, Children's Books, Tween
- DDC/MDS
- 813.5 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999
- LCC
- PZ10.3 .L85 .D — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
Statistics
- Members
- 260
- Popularity
- 125,176
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.50)
- Languages
- English, French
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 7
- UPCs
- 1
- ASINs
- 9
