The Story of Doctor Dolittle [SEP] illustrator
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts (1920), written and illustrated by the British author Hugh Lofting, is the first of his Doctor Dolittle books, a series of children's novels about a man who learns to talk to animals and becomes their champion around the world. It was one of the novels in the series which was adapted into the film "Doctor Dolittle".
Plot.
John Dolittle,
action adaptation starring Robert Downey Jr., Michael Sheen, and Antonio Banderas.
Appearances in other languages.
A Russian children's novel "Doctor Aybolit" (Doctor Oh-it-hurts) by Korney Chukovsky (first published in 1924) was loosely based on the stories of Doctor Dolittle. The original novel credited Lofting's work, as did Chukovsky in his memoirs.
Norwegian playwright, songwriter, and illustrator, Thorbjørn Egner, made an album called "Doktor Dyregod" (Doctor good-toward-animals)