Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting starting with the 1920 The Story of Doctor Dolittle. He is a doctor who shuns human patients in favour of animals, with whom he can speak in their own languages.
• The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920)
• The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (1922)
• Doctor Dolittle's Post Office (1923)
• Doctor Dolittle's Circus (1924)
• Doctor Dolittle's Zoo (1925)
• Doctor Dolittle's Caravan (1926)
• Doctor Dolittle's Garden (1927)
• Doctor Dolittle in the Moon (1928)
• Doctor Dolittle's Return (1933)
• Doctor Dolittle's Birthday Book (1936)
• Doctor Dolittle and the Secret Lake (copyrighted 1923, but not published until 1948)
• Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary (1950)
• Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures (1952)
Companion books:
• Gub Gub's Book: An Encyclopaedia of Food (1932)
Short stories:
• "Doctor Dolittle Meets a Londoner in Paris" is a short story included in The Flying Carpet, pp. 110–19 (1925), an anthology of children's short stories and poems with illustrations by Cynthia Asquith.
