Published in 1933, Doctor Dolittle's Return was the first Doctor Dolittle book in five years. Doctor Dolittle in the Moon was supposed to be the last book but, as with Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes, the author relented. The tone is lighter and more comic, and is surprisingly short, the shortest book since the first one.
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