Rinkitink in Oz vs The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Which Should You Read?

Rinkitink in Oz L. Frank Baum · 1916 ★★★★☆ 3.8 132 pages · ≈ 2 h 27 m · Moderate

“If you have a map of the Land of Oz handy, you will find that the great Nonestic Ocean washes the shores of the Kingdom of, between which and the Land of Oz lies a strip of the country of the Nome King and a Sandy Desert.”

When all the inhabitants of Pingaree are kidnapped by the mongrel hordes of twin island kingdoms, Prince Inga and his friend King Rinkitink decide to go to the rescue.

The Story of Doctor Dolittle Hugh Lofting · 1920 ★★★★☆ 4.0 180 pages · ≈ 3 h 20 m · Moderate

“Once upon a time, many years ago-when our grandfathers were little children-there was a doctor; and his name was Dolittle-John Dolittle, M.D. "M.D." means that he was a proper doctor and knew a whole lot.”

There are some of us now reaching middle age who discover themselves to be lamenting the past in one respect if in none other, that there are no books written now for children comparable with those of thirty years ago.…