Monday, May 18, 2015

Doctor Dolittle Novel Review

The Story of Doctor Dolittle was the first published book in the Doctor Dolittle series. The second one, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, won the Newbery medal in 1923. In the Story of Doctor Dolittle, we learn how he went from being a medical doctor for people to a doctor who treats, and talks to, animals. He achieved success in his new field, and then lost it by his insistence on providing a home for a crocodile that his human clients fear will eat their pets. Thus, Doctor Dolittle has little to lose when he learns that the monkeys in Africa need a doctor to help them deal with a contagious deadly disease. He takes the journey with his favorite animals, curing the monkeys while having many adventures both before and after that main event. As a reward for his efforts, the monkeys talk a pushmi-pullyu, a two headed deer-related creature, to go with the doctor so he can make his fortune by displaying it in England.
Personally, i really like this book since the story is really interesting and really fun to read, besides it also gives us great moral lessons such that we have to be loyal to our friends and friendship is more important than money.
I would like to recommend this book to children and teenagers because it gets bunch of great mooral lessons.

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