Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures Crested Screamers" and "The Lost Boy" are to be placed in that order within Part One, Chapter 12 of "Doctor Dolittle's Caravan". "The Story of the Maggot" is given a greatly reduced summary at the conclusion to early printings of Part Two, Chapter 4 of "Doctor Dolittle's Garden". Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures is a Doctor Dolittle book written by Hugh Lofting. The book is a posthumous collection of stories that Lofting originally wrote during the 1920s for the "Herald Tribune Syndicate" but here first included in book form. The book originally contained two introductory pieces followed
The Story of Doctor Dolittle in a circus until he makes enough money to retire to his beloved home in Puddleby. The original edition of the book included language and plot elements that are considered racist by present-day standards, though probably not intended as malicious by the writer. It is for these reasons that some schools banned this series of books in the 1970s. Black African characters are clearly intended by the writer to be sympathetic, but their depiction reflects the paternalistic mindset of colonialism still prevailing in Britain at the time of writing, not to mention the racism in Lofting's adopted United States. Editions