Doctor Dolittle's return - Hugh Lofting (Doctor Dolittle #9)

It is the night of an eclipse—a mysterious, breathtaking night. Suddenly the anxious watchers at Puddleby-on-the-Marsh see a long-awaited sign: the Doctor’s smoke signal comes drifting down from the nearly smothered moon.

The great man is coming back! Over at last are the days of worry—the nights of guessing. Screeches of delight—yelps of joy—hoots of happiness burst from excited animals.

Imagine their astonishment when they see the Doctor come riding into his garden on an enormous locust. The Doctor, through years of living in the moon, has become nearly as large as Otho Bludge, the Moon-Man himself. For a time he has to live in a circus tent erected for him by Tommy Stubbins and Matthew Mugg.

And such tales he has to tell the thrilled little family—strange, enchanting tales of another life on another planet! They prove more mysteriously surprising, more unbelievably beautiful, perhaps, than any stories he has ever told them before.