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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 28-22386
Contents
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| 1 | We Land Upon a New World | [1] |
| 2 | The Land of Colors and Perfumes | [7] |
| 3 | Thirst! | [13] |
| 4 | Chee-Chee the Hero | [21] |
| 5 | On the Plateau | [26] |
| 6 | The Moon Lake | [33] |
| 7 | Tracks of a Giant | [39] |
| 8 | The Singing Trees | [46] |
| 9 | The Study of Plant Languages | [53] |
| 10 | The Magellan of the Moon | [59] |
| 11 | We Prepare to Circle the Moon | [65] |
| 12 | The Vanity Lilies | [72] |
| 13 | The Flower of Many Scents | [79] |
| 14 | Mirrors for Flowers | [86] |
| 15 | Making New Clothes | [93] |
| 16 | Monkey Memories of the Moon | [100] |
| 17 | We Hear of “The Council” | [108] |
| 18 | The President | [117] |
| 19 | The Moon Man | [125] |
| 20 | The Doctor and the Giant | [135] |
| 21 | How Otho Bludge Came to the Moon | [143] |
| 22 | How the Moon Folk Heard of Doctor Dolittle | [151] |
| 23 | The Man Who Made Himself a King | [159] |
| 24 | Doctor Dolittle Opens His Surgery on the Moon | [167] |
| 25 | Puddleby Once More | [175] |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | ||
| “Zip!--The spring was made” | [5] | |
| “By smelling he could tell if they were safe to eat” | [8] | |
| “The Doctor had brought a compass” | [10] | |
| “Jumping was extraordinarily easy” | [12] | |
| “It was different from any tree I have ever seen” | [14] | |
| “The doctor kept glancing up uneasily” | [16] | |
| “Polynesia soared into the air” | [19] | |
| “I remember Chee-Chee trickling something cool between my lips” | [20] | |
| “Some of the fruits were as big as a trunk” | [22] | |
| “ ‘I climbed a tree’ ” | [24] | |
| “We approached the bluff on whose brow the vegetation flourished” | [27] | |
| The Umbrella Tree | [28] | |
| “ ‘Yes,’ said she, ‘I was awake several times’ ” | [30] | |
| “ ‘You bet they were not!’ grunted Polynesia” | [31] | |
| “We used a long pole to punt with” | [37] | |
| “ ‘What do you think, Doctor?’ he stammered” | [40] | |
| “An enormous footprint” | [42] | |
| “There was more movement in the limbs of the trees” | [44] | |
| “It was a sort of basin” | [47] | |
| “Spellbound we gazed up at them” | [50] | |
| “For quite a long while he sat watching certain shrubs” | [51] | |
| “Seeing a giant shadow disappear into the gloom” | [55] | |
| “He seemed to have brought everything he could need” | [57] | |
| “The faithful monkey would come to us every three hours with his strange vegetables” | [60] | |
| “It was natural to spring a step that measured six or seven feet” | [62] | |
| “We rigged up weather-vanes” | [63] | |
| “Mostly they were on bare knolls” | [66] | |
| “ ‘You mean you think it was he who sent the signals?’ ” | [68] | |
| “ ‘I don’t know, Stubbins,’ said he, frowning” | [70] | |
| “We always took care to leave landmarks behind us” | [73] | |
| “Certainly the plant life became more elaborate and lively” | [75] | |
| “The flowers would be about eighteen inches across” | [77] | |
| “Chee-Chee just fainted away at the first sample” | [80] | |
| “ ‘Are you ready, Stubbins?’ ” | [82] | |
| “He struck a light” | [84] | |
| “He passed his hand all around it” | [87] | |
| “He held them before the lilies” | [89] | |
| “These we rigged up on sticks” | [91] | |
| “ ‘Tommy, you seem to be getting enormously tall’ ” | [94] | |
| “His height had increased some three inches” | [96] | |
| “ ‘We look like a family of Robinson Crusoes’ ” | [98] | |
| “ ‘Let me think,’ said Chee-Chee” | [101] | |
| “Leaning back munching a piece of yellow yam” | [103] | |
| “A terrible explosion followed” | [106] | |
| “It was a rocky gulch” | [109] | |
| “There was no doubt that they were on the watch” | [112] | |
| “Proceeded with his conversation with the vines” | [113] | |
| “A species of big lizard overran the Moon” | [115] | |
| “where the globe of the Earth glowed dimly” | [118] | |
| “Every single seed was carefully dug up by long-billed birds” | [121] | |
| “Still more birds left the concealment of the creepers” | [123] | |
| “With a very serious look on her old face” | [126] | |
| “Others were unbelievably large” | [128] | |
| “It was human!” | [131] | |
| “ ‘Look!--the right wrist--look!’ ” | [133] | |
| “ ‘Stubbins!--I say, Stubbins!’ ” | [137] | |
| “ ‘Very poor hospitality, I call it’ ” | [139] | |
| “I watched Chee-Chee’s head nodding sleepily” | [141] | |
| “ ‘I lived on roots’ ” | [147] | |
| “ ‘The piece fell into one of our lakes’ ” | [149] | |
| “The bird was introduced to the Doctor” | [152] | |
| “ ‘I had the birds bring me reports of your movements’ ” | [155] | |
| “ ‘I set the pile off with a live ember’ ” | [157] | |
| “ ‘I could whistle short conversations’ ” | [161] | |
| “This history had been carved in pictures on the face of a rock” | [163] | |
| “ ‘But grasshoppers!’ ” | [165] | |
| “Grasshoppers with crude bandages on their gawky joints” | [168] | |
| “Then he lectured his big friend” | [170] | |
| “ ‘Watch out, Tommy!’ ” | [172] | |
| “ ‘Don’t worry, Tommy, he’ll come back’ ” | [185] |