Doctor Dolittle's Post Office is the third of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books. In this book, Doctor Dolittle helps to capture a slave trader's ship, then organizes the postal service of a small African kingdom, Fantippo, ruled over by King Koko. Over the course of later chapters, he discovers a hidden island populated by prehistoric creatures, gets thrown into another African jail, invents animal alphabets, and defeats at least two armies. Each of the animals in the Dolittle family also tells a personal story. The postal program grows into a worldwide postal and publishing service for the benefit of animals everywhere. Adventures abound and the Doctor helps as much as possible. ( philc)
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Genres for the project: Children's Fiction/Action & Adventure
Keywords that describe the book: animals
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I’m interested in PLing this—the new movie coming out and an upcoming article I’m working on about Lofting and the Dolittle books has me wanting to check out his works and this seems like a great opportunity!
Colleen
Colleen McMahon
No matter where you go, there you are. -- Buckaroo Banzai
ColleenMc wrote: ↑December 18th, 2019, 3:38 pm
I’m interested in PLing this—the new movie coming out and an upcoming article I’m working on about Lofting and the Dolittle books has me wanting to check out his works and this seems like a great opportunity!
Colleen
Thank you colleen. Just curious, why are you so interested in Lofting? What article are you researching?
EDIT: There is also a dramatic reading of this book going on at this time so if you would like to be an animal or two, check it out.
Peruvian owls always hunt in pairs because they are inca hoots.
89 Decibels? Easy Peasy ! https://youtu.be/aSKR55RDVpk
I write a biweekly column on a SF fan site, File 770, about
Public domain works I come across that are of interest to the fans there. I decided to look at Lofting for my first January entry since it will coincide with the release of the RDJ movie.
I'll pass on the dramatic reading...I read a little fiction but non-fiction is more in my wheelhouse. I'm not much for the acting!
Colleen
Colleen McMahon
No matter where you go, there you are. -- Buckaroo Banzai
That is ultra cool Colleen! a column about SF stuff. I've loved SF since a little boy in fact, I just finished recording The Variable Man by Philip K. Dick. Thanks again for being my DPL for this book about talking animals.
Of course my favorites to record are Robert Howards Conan t hings. He writes so smoothly.
Peruvian owls always hunt in pairs because they are inca hoots.
89 Decibels? Easy Peasy ! https://youtu.be/aSKR55RDVpk
Thanks! I took December off because my second "due date" (I set my own deadline to make sure I stay on a regular schedule) was on 12/24 and as the first approached last week it looked like there was nothing new on LV to write about and I had been busy with other things, so I decided to take the whole month off. But here's a link to the most recent one:
I always mention the latest LV releases in the science fiction/fantasy/horror areas (occasionally mystery that might be of interest, like Sherlock Holmes) so your projects show up quite a lot.
Did you ever see the movie about Robert E. Howard? I remember one existed and went to look it up -- it's called "The Whole Wide World" and it came out in 1996. I was shocked! I would have said "in the last 10 years" if someone asked me when it was made. I'm getting so old!
Colleen
Colleen McMahon
No matter where you go, there you are. -- Buckaroo Banzai
I listened to section 0 Prologue and found these potential issues:
--Checker reads the volume a bit high at 92.3
--00:48: "Pushmipullyu" read as "push me pull me"
--01:56 "savage" -- text says "strange" (not something I would ordinarily quibble with but 'savage' is a loaded term that I think it's better to avoid if it's not actually in the text...)
So far so good, off to a nice start!
Colleen
PS Do you put the times in the MW or do I? Or are you waiting til the project is finished (or sections finalized) to do that?
Colleen McMahon
No matter where you go, there you are. -- Buckaroo Banzai
Yippee again Colleen. Thanks again for doing this.
Sections 1, 2 and 3 have been uploaded with corrections made. all have had volume reduced.
Don't worry about times, I keep track of those separately.
EDIT: This book, while very entertaining, is very much euro-centric and endows English culture with the the best of everything. Everybody else was definitely sub standard. This has to be understood and taken into consideration when reading. Hope you understand.
Peruvian owls always hunt in pairs because they are inca hoots.
89 Decibels? Easy Peasy ! https://youtu.be/aSKR55RDVpk
philchenevert wrote: ↑January 13th, 2020, 7:13 pm
Yippee again Colleen. Thanks again for doing this.
Sections 1, 2 and 3 have been uploaded with corrections made. all have had volume reduced.
Don't worry about times, I keep track of those separately.
EDIT: This book, while very entertaining, is very much euro-centric and endows English culture with the the best of everything. Everybody else was definitely sub standard. This has to be understood and taken into consideration when reading. Hope you understand.
Oh I know about the Eurocentric part, that’s a built in with the stuff we read that’s in PD, but there’s no sense in adding to it that’s why I mentioned that word change. “Strange” is already a problematic term to some extent but “savage” takes it up a notch—and given how often terms like that show up in writing from this era it’s totally natural to see it there when reading it.
Colleen McMahon
No matter where you go, there you are. -- Buckaroo Banzai