Doctor Dolittle and the Pirates

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Summary: A delightful children's story where pirates can be good too!
Review: I grew up with this book and always found it refreshing to see how someone's real character could be improved even if his outside seemed strongly bad. And, that a person's redemption could take place in his own life (ie. without the necessity of perishing, or being eaten first). Its charming and 'Yellow submarine'-stylish 1968 Dolittle plus the endearing portraits of the familiar push-me-pull-you and other characters combine with swashbuckled pirates in colorful scenery, and a non-preachy happy ending, to make the story a good bedtime reading for small children. I am pleased to pass this book's tattered pages on to our next generation. I hope that someday a publisher will decide to reprint this story: in doing so it would be choosing most wisely.

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Summary: Dr Dolittle and the Pirates
Review: This is a wonderful story for any Dr. Dolittle fan. Dr. Dolittle and his animal friends try to escape from a pirate ship. They are forced ashore and must land on advice from a rat, who can feel that their ship will sink before nightfall. The pirates raid and steal Dr. Dolittle's ship, but Dr. Dolittle and his friends sail away on the lavish pirate ship. The rat's prediction comes true and the original ship sinks; but the pirates are saved by Dr. Dolittle who tells the sharks not to eat the pirates. The price: the pirates must live on the island and feed the beautiful canaries.