Doctor Dolittle's circus

By Hugh Lofting

Subjects: Animal stories, Human-animal communication, Fantasy, Doctor Dolittle (Fictitious character), Fiction, Children's fiction, Animals, Juvenile fiction, Children̕s fiction, Circus

Description: 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.