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Read Doctor Dolittle in the Moon in Englishwith every sentence explained
Hugh Lofting · 1928
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About the book
Doctor Dolittle in the Moon by Hugh Lofting was first published in 1928. In Passage you read the full text in the original English, marked beginner and filed under children, fantasy and science fiction. It runs to about 37,100 words.
A giant moth. A trip to the Moon. A world where even the trees can talk.
Carried across space on the broad back of Jamaro Bumblelily, an enormous moth, Doctor John Dolittle lands on the Moon with his young assistant Tommy Stubbins, Polynesia the parrot and Chee-Chee the monkey. They breathe through great orange "moon-bells", leap like grasshoppers in the light gravity and gaze at hills that change colour from minute to minute.
But the Moon is not empty. The travellers find singing trees, flowers that seem to think and plants with languages of their own, and the Doctor sets out to learn them all. Then they come upon enormous footprints in the sand. Someone very large lives here, and someone, it seems, has been waiting for the Doctor.
Doctor Dolittle in the Moon is one of Hugh Lofting's most imaginative adventures, told by Tommy with wonder, humour and a naturalist's curiosity.
- Author
- Hugh Lofting
- First published
- 1928
- Language
- English
- Level
- Beginner
- Genre
- Children, Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Length
- About 37,100 words
How it opens
In writing the story of our adventures in the Moon I, Thomas Stubbins, secretary to John Dolittle, M.D. (and son of Jacob Stubbins, the cobbler of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh), find myself greatly puzzled. It is not an easy task, remembering day by day and hour by hour those crowded and exciting weeks. It is true I made many notes for the Doctor, books full of them. But that information was nearly all of a highly scientific kind. And I feel that I should tell the story here not for the scientist so much as for the general reader. And it is in that I am perplexed.
Reading Doctor Dolittle in the Moon in Passage
Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in English. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:
- a natural translation of that exact sentence,
- a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
- the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
- all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.
It's marked beginner, so it's a good first whole book if you know the basics of English and want something you can finish. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.
