돌리틀 박사님 / The Story of Doctor Dolittle (영문판, 삽화 포함)

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'The Story of Doctor Dolittle'(영문판, 삽화 포함)은 인간과 동물 모두에게 존경받는 돌리틀 박사님의 따뜻한 이야기입니다. 휴 로프팅의 대표작인 본 도서는 동물의 언어를 이해하고 친구가 되어 다양한 모험을 펼치는 돌리틀 박사의 특별한 삶을 생생하게 그려냅니다. 이번 영문판은 원작의 감동을 그대로 전달할 뿐만 아니라, 휴 로프팅이 직접 그린 삽화가 함께 수록되어 읽는 즐거움을 더했습니다. 영어 원서로 책을 읽으며 어휘력과 독해력을 향상시킬 수 있고, 영어적 표현도 자연스럽게 익힐 수 있어 영어 학습자와 어린이 모두에게 큰 도움이 됩니다.

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ONCE upon a time, many years ago—when our grandfathers were little children—there was a doctor; and his name was Dolittle—John Dolittle, M.D. “M.D.” means that he was a proper doctor and knew a whole lot.
He lived in a little town called, Puddleby-on-the-Marsh. All the folks, young and old, knew him well by sight. And whenever he walked down the street in his high hat everyone would say, “There goes the Doctor!—He’s a clever man.” And the dogs and the children would all run up and follow behind him; and even the crows that lived in the church-tower would caw and nod their heads.
The house he lived in, on the edge of the town, was quite small; but his garden was very large and had a wide lawn and stone seats and weeping-willows hanging over. His sister, Sarah Dolittle, was housekeeper for him; but the Doctor looked after the garden himself.
He was very fond of animals and kept many kinds of pets. Besides the gold-fish in the pond at the bottom of his garden, he had rabbits in the pantry, white mice in his piano, a squirrel in the linen closet and a hedgehog in the cellar. He had a cow with a calf too, and an old lame horse—twenty-five years of age—and chickens, and pigeons, and two lambs, and many other animals. But his favorite pets were Dab-Dab the duck, Jip the dog, Gub-Gub the baby pig, Polynesia the parrot, and the owl Too-Too.
His sister used to grumble about all these animals and said they made the house untidy. And one day when an old lady with rheumatism came to see the Doctor, she sat on the hedgehog who was sleeping on the sofa and never came to see him any more, but drove every Saturday all the way to Oxenthorpe, another town ten miles off, to see a different doctor.

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저자(글) 휴 로프팅

휴 로프팅(Hugh Lofting)은 영국 출신의 동화작가이자 삽화가로, '돌리틀 박사 이야기' 시리즈를 통해 전 세계 어린이들에게 큰 사랑을 받았습니다. 1차 세계대전 중 가족에게 보낸 편지에서 착안해 독창적인 동물 이야기와 생생한 삽화를 창조하였으며, 인간과 동물의 소통이라는 따뜻하고 유쾌한 메시지로 지금까지도 많은 독자에게 감동을 주고 있습니다.