Doctor Dolittle's Return by Hugh Lofting
Doctor Dolittle’s Return is lighter and more comic than other Dolittle books. Tommy Stubbins waits for Doctor Dolittle’s return from the Moon. When the Doctor returns he is anxious to write of what he has experienced. This proves more difficult than expected. The poignancy of the doctor’s lunar experiences is juxtaposed with his hilarious attempts to be put into jail so he will be free of all responsibilities and will be able to write his book.
Table of content
Part I
Chapter 2 The Cats'-meat-man's Advice
Chapter 3 Cheapside Calls on Us
Chapter 4 The Eclipse of the Moon
Chapter 6 The Sound in the Sky
Chapter 10 The Dolittle Household Revolution
Chapter 11 The Doctor's Accident
Part II
Chapter 1 Why John Dolittle Stayed So Long on the Moon
Chapter 2 The Naturalists' Paradise
Chapter 3 Otho Bludge's Prisoner
Chapter 4 The Gentleman in the Moon
Chapter 6 Setting the Zoo to Rights
Chapter 7 Squib the Cocker Spaniel
Chapter 8 How to Get Into Jail?
Chapter 10 Lady Matilda Beamish