Dr. Dolittle And The Green Canary
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Product details
- ISBN 9780099880905
- Weight: 172g
- Dimensions: 110 x 178mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jan 1992
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Pipinella, star of Doctor Dolittle's Canary Opera, tells her amazing adventures to the Doctor and his animal friends. Intrigued by the story of her lost master, the animals are all determined to find him.
Hugh Lofting was born in Maidenhead in 1886. As a child he kept a miniature zoo and wildlife museum in his mother's linen cupboard and enjoyed making up stories for his family. He later studied engineering in London and the United States, and visited Canada, Africa and the West Indies. After his marriage in 1912 he settled in the United States. Hugh Lofting fought in the trenches during World War I and it was whilst observing the lack of compassion shown to the horses on the battlefields that the idea for Doctor Dolittle was born. He was the main character in letters Hugh sent home from the front to entertain his children. The successful publication of The Story of Doctor Dolittle in 1920 was followed by a further eleven books. In 1923 Hugh Lofting was awarded the Newbery Medal. He died in 1947.
