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==Doctor Dolittle==
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[[File:The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle.djvu|thumb|''The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle'']]

Hugh Lofting's character Doctor John Dolittle, an English physician who lives in the fictional town of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh in the [[West Country]] and can speak to animals, first saw light in illustrated letters written to his children from the trenches, when actual news, he later said, was too horrible or too dull. The stories are set in England in the 1820s–1840s – ''[[The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle]]'' gives a date of 1839.<ref name="Schmidt"/>

''[[The Story of Doctor Dolittle]]: Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts Never Before Printed'' (1920) began the series and won a posthumous [[Lewis Carroll Shelf Award]] in 1958. Its first sequel, ''[[The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle]]'' (1922) won a [[Newbery Medal]]. Eight novels completed by Lofting followed and two more books were edited after his death.