Doctor Doolittle's circus
by Hugh Lofting · 1925
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The doctor needs money to pay off a voyage to Africa, so he joins the circus with the pushmi-pullyu as his attraction. He enlightens a circus owner who cares little for animals, fights against the practice of fox hunting and helps other creatures such as a circus seal and cart horses too old to work.
Juvenile fictionCircusAnimalsFictionFantasyHuman-animal communicationAnimal storiesDoctor Dolittle (Fictitious character)Children's fictionChildren̕s fiction