동물들의 언어를 이해하는 수의사 존 닥터 두리틀의 이야기를 담은 동화책. 작가 휴 로프팅의 풍부한 상상력과 자연의 아름다움을 담은 이 책은 동물들과 인간들이 함께 살아가는 이상적인 세상을 상상하게 만들어준다. 어린이들 뿐 아니라 모든 세대에게 추천할 수 있는 귀한 보물같은 책이다.
″‘But I like animals better than the best people,’ said the Doctor.”
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 1967 film Doctor Dolittle.
