The main characters of the story are:
Dr. Doolittle
Chee-Chee the monkey
Polynesia the parrot
Crocodile
Monkeys from the monkey kingdom
Pushmi-pullyu
Doctor Doolittle lived in Puddleby, England. First he was a human doctor, but then he changed into an animal doctor. This was because his parrot, Polynesia, gave Doctor Doolittle a book about animal languages. From this book the Doctor learns all sorts of animal languages.
Dr. Doolittle’s first problem was that he began to have very little time for his human patients and had so many animals that he ran out of money very fast.
Then one day during winter, Dr. Doolittle was reading a book that he had written in animal languages. Suddenly they heard running footsteps outside the Doctor’s house. The doctor’s pet monkey, Chee-Chee,came rushing in the door out of breath. Chee-Chee told the Doctor there is a terrible sickness among the monkeys in Africa. …show more content…
He asked his neighbor if he could borrow his ship to sail to Africa.
Dr. Doolittle sailed to Africa with all his favorite animals aboard the ship. On the way to Africa the ship hit a rock and they were shipwrecked. Dr. Doolittle tied one end of a rope to the ship and Polynesia flew over to a Palm tree and tied up the other end of the rope. The animals that could not swim crossed the rope to get to land carrying supplies of all sorts.
On the way to the monkey kingdom they got caught by a king named Jolligingki and put in prison. Polynesia tricked the king and they escaped from