书名：The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle 杜利特医生航海记/杜立德医生航海记
读者对象:8-12岁
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数930L
作者：Hugh Lofting休·洛夫廷
出版社名称：Yearling
出版时间：1988
语种：英文
ISBN：9780440400028
商品尺寸：13.2 x 2.0 x 19.3 cm
包装：平装
页数：336

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle《杜利特医生航海记》，美国儿童文学家洛夫廷的童话作品，曾获纽伯瑞儿童文学奖金奖，并多次被搬上银幕。杜利特医生的整个旅程，经历种种惊险，读来跌宕有致，又富于诗意和幽默感。书中语言和插图都是那么滑稽可爱。因此，本书不仅受到儿童的欢迎，而且也受到许多成年人的喜爱，被认为是《爱丽丝漫游奇境记》之后杰出的儿童文学经典之作。杜利特医生充满爱心的所作所为，深深感动了动物，整个动物世界都能为杜利特医生赴汤蹈火；同时也深深地感染了读过这些故事的所有的人。

推荐理由：
1.纽伯瑞儿童文学奖金奖作品，美国中小学生必读书目；
2.故事充满幻想色彩，涉及了大量的地理、历史、生物、天文、航海等方面的知识；
3.英文原版，配有插图，纸质护眼。

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★《杜利特医生航海记》是被誉为“全世界适合儿童阅读的佳作”
★《杜利特医生航海记》中戴着皇冠捕蝴蝶的国王、身着盛装斗牛的英国绅士、憋在水中研究贝类的博物学家，哪个才是真正的杜利特医生？
The classic Newbery Medal winner that was transformed into a beloved film.
Doctor Dolittle heads for the high seas in perhaps the most amazing adventure ever experienced by man or animal!
Told by 9-and-a-half-year-old Tommy Stubbins, crewman and future naturalist, Doctor Dolittle and company survive a perilous shipwreck and land on the mysterious, floating Spidermonkey Island. There he meets the Great Glass Sea Snail who holds the key to the biggest mystery of all.

小男孩汤米斯塔宾斯，偶然间结识了大名鼎鼎的杜利特医生，并幸运地成为了他的助手。没过多久，杜利特决定带着汤米，还有他的动物朋友们一起去遥远的蜘蛛猿之岛，寻找另一位自然科学界龙格。他们在那里将困在山洞里的龙格和他的族人救了出来，并且将两个相互敌对的部落之间的仇恨化解。杜利特医生所做的种种壮举，让两个部落的族人感动不已，他们推选医生当了蜘蛛猿之岛的国王。国王的职位让天性热爱博物学研究的医生苦恼不已，后来海边出现的一个神奇的生物——大海螺——解救他脱离了苦海……
Doctor Dolittle heads for the high seas in perhaps the most amazing adventure ever experienced by man or animal. Told by nine-and-a-half-year-old Tommy Stubbins, crewman and future naturalist, the voyages of Doctor Dolittle and his company lead them to Spidermonkey Island. Along with his faithful friends, Polynesia the parrot and Chee-Chee the monkey, Doctor Dolittle survives a perilous shipwreck and lands on the mysterious floating island. There he meets the wondrous Great Glass See Snail who holds the key to the greates mystery of all.

休·洛夫廷（1886~1947），美国儿童文学作家和插图画家，1886年出生于英国伯克郡的梅登黑德，少年时代加入美国国籍，曾就读于美国麻省理工学院、英国伦敦工业大学，毕业后成为建筑工程师和铁路工程师。第1次世界大战时，休洛夫廷曾服兵役，他强烈反对战争和暴力。为减轻战争带来的压抑，洛夫廷就给家中的孩子写信讲故事，塑造出一个胖胖的动物医生形象——杜利特。于是“杜利特医生的故事”得以问世。他一生共写了12部以杜利特医生为主角的作品，并于1922年获得美国纽伯瑞儿童文学奖，成为在全世界享有盛誉的作家。
由于洛夫廷早年是位工程师，又有丰富的人生经历，所以他的作品知识性极强。在充满幻想色彩的故事中，涉及了大量的地理、历史、生物、天文、航海等方面的知识，为孩子们的阅读提供更多的养料。
Hugh Loftingwas born in 1886 in Maidenhead, Berkshire. His Doctor Dolittle books first appeared on paper in the form of letters to his children, Elizabeth and Colin. Lofting wrote a number of children’s books besides the Dolittle series, includingThe Story of Mrs. Tubbs(1923),Tommy, Tilly and Mrs. Tubbs(1936),Porridge Poetry(1924),The Twilight of Magic(1930), andGub Gub’s Book(1932). Lofting also wrote one book for adults,Victory for the Slain(1942). He died in 1947 in Santa Monica, California.

My name was Tommy Stubbins, son of Jacob Stubbins, the cobbler of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh; I was nine and a half years old. At that time Puddleby was only quite a small town. A river ran through the middle of it; and over this river there was a very old stone bridge, called Kingsbridge, which led you from the market-place on one side to the churchyard on the other.
Sailing-ships came up this river from the sea and anchored near the bridge. I used to go down and watch the sailors unloading the ships upon the river-wall. The sailors sang strange songs as they pulled upon the ropes; and I learned these songs by heart. And I would sit on the river-wall with my feet dangling over the water and sing with the men, pretending to myself that I too was a sailor.
For I longed always to sail away with those brave ships when they turned their backs on Puddleby Church and went creeping down the river again, across the wide lonely marshes to the sea. I longed to go with them out into the world to seek my fortune in foreign lands—Africa, India, China and Peru! When they got round the bend in the river and the water was hidden from view, you could still see their huge brown sails towering over the roofs of the town, moving onward slowly—like some gentle giants that walked among the houses without noise. What strange things would they have seen, I wondered, when next they came back to anchor at Kingsbridge! And, dreaming of the lands I had never seen, I’d sit on there, watching till they were out of sight.
Three great friends I had in Puddleby in those days. One was Joe, the mussel-man, who lived in a tiny hut by the edge of the water under the bridge. This old man was simply marvelous at making things. I never saw a man so clever with his hands. He used to mend my toy ships for me which I sailed upon the river; he built windmills out of packing-cases and barrel-staves; and he could make the most wonderful kites from old umbrellas.
Joe would sometimes take me in his mussel-boat, and when the tide was running out we would paddle down the river as far as the edge of the sea to get mussels and lobsters to sell. And out there on the cold lonely marshes we would see wild geese flying, and curlews and redshanks and many other kinds of seabirds that live among the samfire and the long grass of the great salt fen. And as we crept up the river in the evening, when the tide had turned, we would see the lights on Kingsbridge twinkle in the dusk, reminding us of tea-time and warm fires.