Doctor Dolittle's Zoo

Doctor Dolittle, the man who talks to animals, is back home but facing an all-too-human problem: he is running out of money. Ever the optimist, he opens his garden to every creature in need, encouraging them to build their own communities. A mouse town rises beside the tool shed. Dogs organize their own neighborhood. Badgers dig a burrow beneath the orchard. It is chaos, and his neighbors are not pleased. But the animals have stories to tell, and Dolittle is an eager listener. When something goes missing and the regular detectives cannot solve it, Kling the dog turns sleuth. The solution lies in the secret societies of the smallest creatures, if only one knows how to ask the right questions. Hugh Lofting's signature warmth runs through every page, the kind of gentle humor that makes you smile at what the animals get up to when humans are not watching. This is comfort reading at its finest: a world where kindness is practical and every creature, no matter how small, has a story worth hearing.