> -----Original Message----- > From: Damien Sullivan [mailto:phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, 2002 November 26 23:39 > To: dragaera at dragaera.info > Subject: Re: A question re: Begining Fantacy for Youth > There's also a dim, dim, memory of Dr. Doolittle. Dr. Doolittle rules! I read every volume of Hugh Lofting's series that I could get my hands on. Which reminds me, I should put his books on my wishlist. :) I saw a few months ago at an acquaintance's house "an updated" version. Normally I don't like "updated/cleaned up" versions, but the in the foreward the editors of the new version discussed their intentions and goals, and I was impressed by the integerity they intended, in terms of making an effort to retain as much of Hugh Lofting's words as possible, while carefully changing the "political sensitive" portions. I would have liked to read it and see how well they did (as well as possibly comparing to the original), but there wasn't time for that at the time, and I don't possess a copy of my own (of either version). Hmm. Searching for it on the web turned up the entire text at: http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Hugh_Lofting/The_Story_of_Doctor_Dolittle /index.html