Hugh Lofting (1886-1947) was a British writer and well-known author of a series of works on Dr. Doolittle, who understood and helped animals. The first book, The Story of Dr. Doolittle, His Unusual Life at Home and Extraordinary Adventures in Foreign Countries, was published in 1920 with illustrations by Lofting himself and immediately fell in love with readers, both adults and children. Her popularity was such that the writer continued to write stories about an unusual doctor.
... In the small town of Paddleby on the Swamp lived Dr. Doolittle. He loved animals very much and even with the help of his Polynesian parrot he learned to understand and talk to them. And once he learned that there was an epidemic in Africa and many monkeys died. Dr. Doolittle decides to travel to Africa and save these unfortunate animals ...
Stories about Dr. Doolittle have become extremely popular around the world, they have been repeatedly screened with the participation of famous actors, created cartoons. This book is published in Ukrainian for the first time.
