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From: Sunday News Lancaster, PA
Date: 20050925
Author:MaryAlice Bitts

The realities of war did nothing to dampen the imagination of World War I army lieutenant Hugh Lofting.

Not wanting to write home to his two children about the actual things he was witnessing including the inhumane treatment of horses on the front lines Lofting instead wrote letters filled with delightfully illustrated animal stories. Those stories would later earn him a prestigious Newbery Award and a place among the best- loved and most enduring authors of his day.

"The Story of Doctor Dolittle," published in 1920, was the first of 12 wildly popular books that Lofting based on tales he ...

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