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Doctor Dolittle's Post Office

by Hugh Lofting

Doctor Dolittle starts a mail service run entirely by birds, and the letters bring adventures.

📖 35 chapters, complete ⏱ about 10 minutes a night 📅 a chapter a night finishes it in about 5 weeks
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This book can earn their screen time.

Assign Doctor Dolittle's Post Office as a mission and pick the schedule: every day, school nights, weekends, or one chapter a week. The app serves the next chapter each time and keeps the bookmark.

📚 They read it in the app

The full text, 35 chapters, on their own device. No separate book to buy or lose.

🎤 They prove it out loud

At the end of a chapter the app highlights a short passage and your child reads it aloud. Mak listens and checks it against the page.

⚡ The screen time is earned

Pass, and the XP lands. Screen time comes from the book, not the feed.

What's inside

The complete book, split into 35 chapters the app serves one at a time.

See all 35 chapters
Chapter 1Xi Good-Bye To Fantippo
Chapter 2Zuzana
Chapter 3The Doctor's Reception On The Warship
Chapter 4A Great Gunner
Chapter 5The Royal Mails Of Fantippo
Chapter 6The Voyage Delayed
Chapter 7No-Man's-Land
Chapter 8The Animals' Paradise
Chapter 9The Swiftest Mail In The World
Chapter 10A Most Unusual Post Office
Chapter 11Cheapside
Chapter 12The Birds That Helped Columbus
Chapter 13Cape Stephen Light
Chapter 14Gulls And Ships
Chapter 15Weather Bureaus
Chapter 16Teaching By Mail
Chapter 17The Animals' Magazine
Chapter 18The Doctor's Story
Chapter 19Gub-Gub's Story
Chapter 20Dab-Dab's Story
Chapter 21The White Mouse's Story
Chapter 22Jip's Story
Chapter 23Too-Too's Story
Chapter 24The Pushmi-Pullyu's Story
Chapter 25Parcel Post
Chapter 26The Great Mail Robbery
Chapter 27Pearls And Brussels Sprouts
Chapter 28Pearl Divers
Chapter 29Obombo's Rebellion
Chapter 30The Doctor's Release
Chapter 31A Mysterious Letter
Chapter 32The Land Of The Mangrove Swamps
Chapter 33The Secret Lake
Chapter 34The Postmaster General's Last Order
Chapter 35Good-Bye To Fantippo

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Tonight, Doctor Dolittle's Post Office can be the mission.

Assign it in about a minute. The first read-aloud usually earns a grin.

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