![]() Fantasy and children's fiction, when written well, are still internally believable enough for adults to enjoy, but sometimes it just doesn't work. I couldn't find any ground to root my beliefs. But fortunately for the progression of the story, humans are incredibly dumbed down, so the Doctor and the animals get away with a lot. ![]() Monkeys in Africa get sick of some rampant disease, so the Doctor and the main cast of animals travel to Africa, where blacks want to be white, have British political systems, and some other things that make me laugh because surely a lot of reviews would be raging about inappropriate racial and cultural implications.to put it politely. 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 the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958.The sequel, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (1922), won Lofting the prestigious Newbery Medal. ![]() Once he has enough exotic animals living with him, the locals start staying away and not paying him for veterinary services, so the animals go full-Disney and do all the chores. No animal has a behavioral resemblance to there own kind-which exaggerates to an awkward level in um.non-British humans. ![]() It's a story of an insufferable doctor who learns ALL animal languages from a parrot (yet he's the only one, even though there's no particular reason why no one else ever learned from parrots, nevermind why parrots are language omnipotent). ![]()
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