Dr. Dolittle

We just finished reading Dr. Dolittle. Here is Justin's account of the story, exactly how he narrated it to me for his Nanna.

The story was about a man named Dr. Dolittle. He could talk to animals, because his parrot Polynesia taught him how. Have you heard of a pushme-pullyu? It is a two-headed animal, but it isn’t real for real life!!!!!!!!!! The monkeys got sick and Dr. Dolittle came to rescue them. After that, the monkeys wanted to get him an animal. Soon they decided on a pushme-pullyu because it had never been able to be caught before, because no one could ever sneak up on it because it would ALWAYS be facing you. But, the monkeys had a clever idea. They circled the pushme-pullyu. The pushme-pullyu tried to get out of the circle of monkeys but he couldn’t. The pushme-pullyu finally decided to go with Dr.Dolittle who had gotten poor. But the Pushme-pullyu would make him rich. Is that cool Nanna? On the way back, they went past a pirate island. 6 pirates got onto their boat and Dr. D had an idea. He told his Duck Dab Dab to fly up and get some birds to pull the boat forward. Thy pulled the boat to an island with dozens of canaries on it. When they stopped the pirates saw their ship. They sailed over, and came over to see if there was anything to steal in it. But the rats knew that the ship would sink the night after the next day. One of the canaries saw the pirates get onto Dr D’s ship. He came dashing to the Doctor and told him that the pirates were on his ship, and that Dr D could sail the pirates’ ship. After a few minutes, the ship that the pirates were on started to sink. The pirates said, “we should be seeing the rats leave by now.” Jip, the dog, tried to tell the pirates that the rats already left the ship two hours ago. But nobody could understand dog talk but the doctor. Then the sharks started to swim toward the pirates. The shark told the Dr., “These pirates are not nice.” The sharks asked him if they could eat the pirates. The Dr. said, “maybe, let me think.” After the Dr said stuff for a minute, he turned the pirates into seed farmers!!!!!!!!!!! Ha ha ha. Isn’t that funny Nanna. They found an 8 yr old boy in the ship locked up. The pirates left the boy’s uncle in a big hole. One of them, which there was a pig, and a duck, and Jip the dog of course and that’s all I can remember…one of the animals had an idea. He told the Dr. to call the eagles to help find the little boy’s uncle. The eagles searched ½ of the whole world with out finding one bit of the uncle. (Jusin interjected, “no wait, Nanna will think he is torn to pieces, change that to….) The eagles searched ½ of the whole world with out finding the uncle. Jip the dog, thought he could find the uncle. So they tried it out. JIP told the doctor that which ever way he pointed his nose that is they way he should steer the boat. Finally they found a big rock with nothing on it, just a big and flat rock. It was so big it was like an island. But there was a hole in the middle of the rock, and Jip said that was where the smell came from and they found the uncle deep inside. They took the uncle to his own house and the whole town wanted dr. d to stay. Soon Dr. Dolittle got home as a rich man just because of the pushme-pullyu.

My favorite part was when Doctor Dolittle made the pirates into seed farmers for the canaries.