![]() The consideration that human communication with animals is possible if the proper amount of will and effort is given is an idea that not only can be analogized to person-to-person understanding, but also, as we have seen with Stella the dog, can be taken quite literally. I was blown away by the sheer brilliance of the first line of the book: “Once upon a time, many years ago when our grandfathers were little children…” Lofting was clearly one of those great writers of children’s literature, like my favorite author, Roald Dahl, who remembered and understood childhood with such vivacity that he could transcribe mature ideas into childhood experience. While the novel is written in a typical third person narration, it is also centered in a childlike point of view. In reading the initial chapters of Hugh Lofting’s The Story of Doctor Dolittle, I was charmed by the tone in which Lofting writes. The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts – author: Hugh Lofting, 1920 The films pale in comparison to the simplicity and charm that should surround the modest country doctor turned unofficial ‘veterinarian.’ In order to discuss the most recent addition to the Dolittle saga, 2020’s misguided film version Dolittle, our January Film Club Pick-of-the-Month, it is important to go back to the very beginning and look at the book that started it all. After reading the original novel, and watching the three mainstream film adaptations, I can safely say that the book is, once again, better than any of the adaptations thus far. Multiple film adaptations over the years have tried to reinvent Lofting’s story with varying levels of success. I am of course talking about ‘Doctor Dolittle,’ the fictional physician of Hugh Lofting’s beloved children’s book series, who can communicate with animals. Who hasn’t had the wish to communicate with animals? This is one of those greatly debated ‘superpowers’ and is one idea that found home on the pages of a children’s book written a century ago. ![]() As an animal lover, I have always longed to have this type of communication with animals, to truly understand what they are thinking and desiring, and I was pleasantly surprised to find the story of Doctor Dolittle to share the same desire. After several unsuccessful tries of the button, Stella instead chose to push the “water” and “outside” buttons to communicate the same idea. One of the most incredible moments occurred when Stella’s button for the word “beach” wasn’t working. Watching Stella’s progress is an awe-inspiring and moving experience. Hunger documents this journey with Stella on both YouTube and Instagram. Hunger trained Stella to communicate by pushing buttons that correspond to different English words. OL1449084W Page_number_confidence 93.29 Pages 330 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220625021257 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 217 Scandate 20220621215538 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Tts_version 5.Fairly recently, I was introduced to Stella the talking dog, the pet of speech pathologist Christina Hunger. ![]() Urn:lcp:doctordolittlemo0000hugh:lcpdf:610d8b4e-5d5d-42b5-825e-ed2780b47398 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier doctordolittlemo0000hugh Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2fh6b9mjxm Invoice 1652 Ocr tesseract 5.2.0-1-gc42a Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.4943 Ocr_module_version 0.0.18 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-0001190 Openlibrary_edition ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:07:54 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0003 Boxid IA40577218 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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