''Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures'' is a collection of short stories written and illustrated by Hugh Lofting, published posthumously as twelfth and last in the Doctor Dolittle series of children's fiction. The stories and illustrations were distributed during the 1920s by the Herald Tribune Syndicate and all may been published in the ''

New York Herald Tribune The ''New York Herald Tribune'' was a newspaper published between 1924 and 1966. It was created in 1924 when Ogden Mills Reid of the ''New-York Tribune'' acquired the ''New York Herald''. It was regarded as a "writer's newspaper" and competed ...

'' newspaper, among others. The 1952 collection was their first appearance in book form. The first edition contained introductory items by his widow and sister-in-law and eight Doctor Dolittle stories by Hugh Lofting: * "Foreword" by Josephine Lofting * "Doctor Dolittle and His Family" by

Olga Fricker Olga Marguerite Fricker (July 19, 1902 – November 20, 1997) was a Canadian-born dancer, educator and choreographer, a proponent of the Cecchetti method of ballet training. She is also associated with the '' Doctor Dolittle'' children's stories ...

* "The Sea Dog" (†) * "Dapple" * "The Dog Ambulance" * "The Stunned Man" * "The Crested Screamers" * "The Green Breasted Martins" * "The Story of the Maggot" (†) * "The Lost Boy" The contemporary book club edition omitted two of the longer stories (†) and there have been later editions of six rather than eight stories, without explanation. Separately, some editions omit the Foreword. In the Foreword, Lofting's widow Josephine Fricker Lofting named her collaborator "my sister, Olga Michael", as she had done in the Foreword to its predecessor, the novel ''Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary'' (1950), which Olga Fricker Michael completed after Hugh Lofting's death. The first four stories may be read at the beginning of the 1927 novel ''

Doctor Dolittle's Garden ''Doctor Dolittle's Garden'' (1927) is the eighth book in Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting starting with the 1920 ''The Story of Doctor Dolittle''. ...

''. "The Green Breasted Martins" follows Chapter XII in '' The Story of Doctor Dolittle'' (1920). "The Crested Screamers" and "The Lost Boy" are to be placed in that order within Part One, Chapter 12 of the 1926 book ''

Doctor Dolittle's Caravan ''Doctor Dolittle's Caravan'' is a novel written by Hugh Lofting and published in 1926 by Frederick A. Stokes. It deals with the titular character's bird opera, centering on a female green canary named Pippinella. It is one of many books Hugh L ...

''. "The Story of the Maggot" is given a greatly reduced summary at the conclusion to early printings of Part Two, Chapter 4 of ''

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