World Book Day: what children books have a doctor in them please?

[RatOnnaStick]

Scientists real or fictional is the theme. DS2 wants to be a doctor. I have a white coat and stethoscope set anyway. He is only 5 so he probably won't be asked who he is but I'd like to at least vaguely link it to an actual book character. Dh says I'm not allowed to send him as Dr Frankenstein and I'd rather avoid 'random mad professor' as I suspect at least half the school will do that because the costume is easy.

Doctor in white boots (gp, not main character but very central to main story)

Could claim to be the (off-screen) oncologist from the monster calls (not at all 5 year old friendly)

Dr Dog by Babette Cole? Would he be prepared to be a dog as well as a doctor? It's a great book and age appropriate!

Oliver Jeffers Book Eating boy - tenuous but he does go to see a doctor.

Zog isn’t a doctor, he’s the ambulance which transports Pearl and Gadabout (princess and knight) as they go about being flying doctors.

Yes but Pearl is a doctor. Zog is the name of the book.

A dr appears in The Jolly Postman. Maybe the Christmas one.

In comes the doctor
In comes the nurse
In comes the lady with the alligator purse

There are people like Alexander Fleming, Louis Pasteur and Christiaan Barnard. I have just read that Roger Bannister is a doctor as well as an athlete.

Having just reread Zog tonight with ds2 you're right, he's not the doctor and I'm pretty sure there's no way he will agree to go as Dr Princess Pearl. I'm happy for him to just be a historical doctor. Just need to pick one and make a badge.

Still thinking though.

Various Mr Men go to the Dr

Dr Jekyll? Though if you've been banned from doing Frankenstein maybe not

Oh sorry does it have to be a kid's book?

Dr Van Helsing - some garlic, a crucifix and a plastic stake or is your DH likely to veto anything gothic?
Dr Watson or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as he was a qualified Dr. Could carry one of his books as well as stethoscope etc.

What about Edward Jenner? Could carry a toy cow with added spots. I know he wouldn't be wearing a white coat but artistic license and all plus we certainly covered him at primary school.

Both by Allan Ahlberg:

Bumps in the Night (Funnybones) — Doctor
Bones helps patch up two skeletons as they keep crashing into each other.

Miss Dose the Doctor’s Daughter — both parents are doctors who get ill and she looks after them and their patients

Also the second Zog book features both a female and male doctor — Sir Gadabout and Princess Pearl. Send him in with a cuddly dragon to complete the effect!

Dd used to love this book and it features a stereotypical doctor.

One of the happy family books is doctors

Theres a second zog book??? Why did my children have to grow up?

Dr Foster (who went to Gloucester) or one of the doctors in 'sneezles and wheezles' poem by aa Milne?