Hugh Lofting

that if one of them happens to have

. Lofting believes in his story quite as much as he expects you to.

so that the White Queen in "Alice," for instance,

What child-inquiring mind could resist this intriguing sentence to be found on the second page of the book

the linen closet

the Doctor is not merely a peg on whom to hang exciting and various adventures

Dolittle seems to extend his hand from the page and grasp that of his reader

from first to last.

who would be credible enough even were there no drawing of it