Curious George is a children's book written and illustrated by Margret Rey and H. Rey, and published by Houghton Mifflin in It is the first book in the Curious George series and tells the story of an orphaned monkey named George and his adventures with the Man with the Yellow Hat. The story opens with George, a little orphaned brown monkey, in the jungle of Africa.
An unnamed man in a large yellow straw hat observes him through his binoculars and decides to bring the monkey home with him. He puts his hat on the ground and hides behind a tree. George, ever curious, comes down from the tree " to look at the large yellow hat. The Man takes George in a rowboat to his cruise ship where he gets him out of the bag and then tells George that he is taking him to a zoo in a big city and that he will like it there.
He then gives George the run of the ship and tells him not to get into trouble. On deck, George sees some seagulls, tries to fly with them, and falls overboard. Luckily, the crew notices that George is missing, and spot him in the Atlantic Ocean. They throw him a lifesaver and pull him aboard. When they arrive in America, George is taken to the Man's house, has a meal, smokes a pipe, then goes to bed. While in Paris, Hans and Margret completed the first manuscript for what would become Curious George.
Hans was a gifted illustrator, and his wife, always a child at heart, helped him craft the prose. Like so many other Parisians at the time, the Nazi invasion in caught the Reys off-guard. As Jews, their lives were at stake and they resolved to escape. But by the time Hans went looking for a pair of bicycles to flee Paris, everything was sold out.
The Nazis entered Paris just hours later, but the Reys were already on their way out. They rode their makeshift bicycles for four long days until reaching the French-Spanish border, where they sold them for train fare to Lisbon.
Curious George was published by Houghton Mifflin in , and for seventy-five years these books have been capturing the hearts and minds of readers throughout the world. All the Curious George books, including the seven original stories by Margret and Hans, have sold more than twenty-five million copies. Much consideration is given to programs that benefit animals, through preservation as well as the prevention of cruelty to animals. The foundation supports community outreach programs that emphasize the importance of family, from counseling to peer support groups.
They were married in and moved to Paris soon after. Unfortunately, the political climate in Europe was changing, and by the spring of Hitler was poised to take over Paris. Hans and Margret fled on homemade bicycles with little more than the clothes on their backs and a handful of manuscripts—one of which starred an inquisitive little monkey named Curious George—hours before German troops marched into the city.
After a brief stay in Brazil, they found their way to New York City and eventually settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Both Hans and Margret were very fond of animals, and their first stop when visiting a new city was always the zoo. They owned a series of cocker spaniels, which Hans sometimes featured in his illustrations. And Hans was well known around his summer home for rescuing injured animals and nursing them back to health. One of these animals—an orphaned chipmunk named Coffee, whom Hans had hand-fed with an eyedropper and returned to the wild—came back each summer to visit his human friends.
For the books that they created together, which include the original seven Curious George stories and Whiteblack the Penguin Sees the World , Hans was usually in charge of the ideas and the illustrations, while Margret handled the plot and the writing. However, the lines of responsibility were often blurred on these books, and their collaborative process was more complex than these simple divisions suggest.
In addition, Hans produced several astronomy books that did not involve Margret, and Margret wrote books on her own that Hans illustrated Pretzel, Spotty. Both Hans and Margret believed that ideas could come from anywhere at any time … while soaking in the tub, walking through the woods, reading a book, or dining with friends.
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