Presented here are three of the most popular children’s books of all time: A.A. Milne’s ‘Winnie-the-Pooh, ‘ Ruth Stiles Gannett’s ‘My Father’s Dragon’ and Hugh Lofting’s ‘The Story of Doctor Dolittle.’
‘Winnie-the-Pooh’ tells the story of Christopher Robin and his friends, which includes Winnie-the-Pooh (a Bear of Very Little Brain), sweet-natured Piglet, cantankerous Rabbit and the gloomy Eeyore. An instant hit when it was originally published, Pooh has become a beloved favorite for children all over the world and this volume includes the original illustrations by Ernest Shepard.
Then, Ruth Stiles Gannett’s classic ‘My Father’s Dragon, ‘ which relates the story of a young boy trying to free a dragon who is being held captive on Wild Island and the dangerous creatures he encounters on his journey. It also contains the original illustrations by Ruth Crisman Gannett.
And finally, rounding off this animal-filled trio, we have the story of the Man Who Talks to the Animals, Doctor Dolittle himself. This is the first volume of the cherished ‘Doctor Dolittle’ series – which sees the Doctor and his friends travel to Africa and back – and it has been revised for content in this new version.
Enjoy ALL THREE of these classic children’s novels in ONE VOLUME! This is the first of a limited series.
A propos de l’auteur
Hugh Lofting (1886-1947) was an author of Anglo-Irish ancestry born in Berkshire, England. Though he had an early love of writing, Lofting attempted to take a more practical path with his professional career, training as a civil engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and London Polytechnic but always continuing his writing as he studied.Upon graduation, Lofting moved from one job to another, prospecting for gold in Canada, traveling to Cuba and West Africa and finally settling in America in 1912 where he married Flora Small, who bore him two children.At the beginning of World War One, he signed up to work for the British Ministry of Information in New York before enlisting in the British Army and serving in the Irish Guards. While stationed in France, Lofting saw combat – particularly at Flanders – and found the war to be alternatively tedious and horrifying. Rather than describe what was actually happening to him when he wrote letters home to his family, Lofting chose instead to create a fictional character – who he called ‘Doctor Dolittle’ – to entertain his children.When he returned home from the war, he quickly abandoned any idea of returning to his life as an engineer and concentrated on his writing. At his family’s insistence, he turned his fictional, animal-loving doctor into the title character of his first book, The Story of Doctor Dolittle. It became an immediate hit and spawned no less than eight sequels.Lofting passed away in 1947, leaving behind two posthumous Doctor Dolittle books to be published by his surviving family.Though he wrote many other books and stories, Lofting’s true legacy is the Doctor Dolittle series, which has been adapted many times to the stage and screen and which is beloved by children around the world to this day.Plus d’ebooks du même auteur(s) / Éditeur
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