Doctor Dolittle or too dull. The stories are set in early Victorian England, where Doctor John Dolittle lives in the fictional English village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh in the West Country. Doctor Dolittle has a few close human friends, including Tommy Stubbins and Matthew Mugg, the Cats'-Meat Man. The animal team includes Polynesia (a parrot), Gub-Gub (a pig), Jip (a dog), Dab-Dab (a duck), Chee-Chee (a monkey), Too-Too (an owl), the Pushmi-pullyu, and a white mouse later named simply "Whitey". One inspiration for his character appears to be the Scottish surgeon John Hunter. "The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Being the History of His Peculiar
Sia lives on Kilimanjaro grown up Sia had become a doctor who does researches on HIV. Especially in Israel, the "Children's Everywhere" series, including "Sia lives on Kilimanjaro", was a great success, thanks to the translations by the poet Leah Goldberg. On 5th August 2016 the Israeli director Dvorit Shargal made a 54 minutes film called "Africa! Sia lives on Kilimanjaro". Here Shargal goes to Africa to find Sia from "Sia lives on Kilimanjaro" and tell her story. New York Herald Tribunes Spring Festival Award Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis The book received very good reviews. Lindgren's text was, however, considered secondary to the pictures by Rikwin