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Monday, July 28, 2014

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle


Title: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

Author: Hugh Lofting

Pages: 270

Genre: Children's Fiction, Newbery Award

Grade: B

Synopsis: In this second book about the life and travels of Doctor Dolittle, young Tommy Stubbins joins him on his voyage that takes him to Spidermonkey Island after a perilous shipwreck. Doctor Dolittle becomes friends with the natives on the island, before escaping back to home in the Mysterious Great Glass Sea Snail.

My Review: This Doctor Dolittle book was not much better than the first, and it also won a Newbery medal! I can't help but think the available candidates for the medal in these early years must have been fairly weak... Once again, it's a kids book, a little ridiculous and very outdated (i.e. racist by today's standards).  The book was published in 1922.

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