Doctor Dolittle's Caravan (Red Fox Older Fiction) [Import] [Paperback]

HUGH LOFTING (ILLUSTRATOR) (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: RED FOX; New Ed edition (1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0099854503
• ISBN-13: 978-0099854500
• Product Dimensions: 4.4 x 0.9 x 7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,454,337 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Possibly the best Dolittle Book, April 23, 1999

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This review is from: Doctor Dolittle's Caravan (Hardcover)

Ahh, the feelings of nostalgia I get when I think of Dr. Dolittle, the man who could talk to the animals. In the fifth grade all I did was read Dr. Dolittle books. My school library only had the Story of Dr. Dolittle, Dr. Dolittle's Voyages, Dr. Dolittle's Post Office, and Doctor Dolittle's Circus, and I always had one of them checked out. Consequently, I got sick of them. Then came summer vacation, and my downtown public library had Dr. Dolittle's Caravan. Well, I read it and really got into it. The story ties in with both the aforementioned Dr. Dolittle's Circus as well as Dr. Dolittle and the Green Canary (to the point that read Green Canary borders on redundancy, but I digress). Herein Dr. Dolittle discovers the canary with her sweet songs and bittersweet life's story. My favorite part occurs where the good doctor meets Paganini, the infamous violinist. I liked the "flirting with historical fiction" Lofting tosses our direction. Chronologically, this story MUST take place before 1839, the year the Dr. meets Tommy Stubbins; Paganini died in 1837, I believe, so the timeline for this novel would be the mid-1830s (assuming Dr. Dolittle was taught the language of animals around 1830). I hope this book goes back in print soon.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantabulous! Super duper!, November 15, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Doctor Dolittle's Caravan (Hardcover)

Oh the JOY of reading Doctor Dolittle books! This is a great one. How can it be no publisher(s) have reprinted all the books including the zoo, the moon, the garden, the post office, puddleby adventures etc.?? Are they mad? These books are timeless stories that appeal to animal lovers everywhere!