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Curious George
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Read in November, 2008
A long picture book at 64 pages. The illustrations are essential and tell parts of the story. After the inciting event, George triggers three incidents that arise from his curiosity. These mini-stories do not build on each other and the ending is deus ex machina.
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Totally awesome book. There's like a monkey and stuff. And there's like a dude with a yellow hat. The book's like yellow too. I reminds me of cheese. Sweet, sweet cheese.The monkey is like curious and stuff. His name's like George. He's so awesome.
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Read in August, 2007
i like this book.because I'm curious and like to touch things thats not mine.
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We are avid Curious George fans at our house. But... this first book of the series was a disappointment when we checked it out from the library.
(If you haven't seen it, check out the Curious George television show on PBS. So cool. The narration, jazz music background and teaching about math/ science is captivating).
This book is a study in cultural change! First, George is captured and removed from his natural habitat in Africa by the man with the yellow hat. George smokes a pipe. George...more
(If you haven't seen it, check out the Curious George television show on PBS. So cool. The narration, jazz music background and teaching about math/ science is captivating).
This book is a study in cultural change! First, George is captured and removed from his natural habitat in Africa by the man with the yellow hat. George smokes a pipe. George...more
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Read in January, 1986
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Read in October, 2002
Yes, this book has a monkey smoking a cigar, flying through the air with balloons, being taken to prison, making a phone call whose numbers don't seem to be a phone number at all, and being kidnapped from his home and eventually taken to a zoo. It's just a strange premise and nothing seems right. The book actually calls a policeman "fat" which in our day just reeks of political incorrectness. My son likes to hear this strange story and we read it once in a while. I really don't lik...more
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There's still hardly anything more endearing that good 'ole Curious George. It's a classic for a reason. My kids always love the predicaments he gets himself into, and trying to figure out how the story will resolve itself, which they always do. The illustrations are priceless, and it's amazing how many of the titles I remember from when they were read to me.
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I was familiar with the character, of course, but I don't recall ever reading the first book.
And now I think I see why. It is a little stuck in the past, isn't it? We don't glorify poaching anymore, nor smoking, nor old-fashioned zoos. (And that just messes with the series canon, that, since George doesn't live in the zoo in any of the other books.)
Moreover, my nieces don't find this book interesting, but they do find more recent Curious George stories interesting.
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And now I think I see why. It is a little stuck in the past, isn't it? We don't glorify poaching anymore, nor smoking, nor old-fashioned zoos. (And that just messes with the series canon, that, since George doesn't live in the zoo in any of the other books.)
Moreover, my nieces don't find this book interesting, but they do find more recent Curious George stories interesting.
Please read this b...more
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Read in January, 1960
This is one of those books that reminds me how much I've changed my world outlook over the years. It's not just a question of going from childhood to adulthood. the Curious George books were never my favorites as a kid but I did like them; my guess is I would have given this 3 stars. Now, I'm actually appalled. I’m not really impressed by the book in general but Curious George ending up at the zoo at the end just makes me sad, and I wouldn’t encourage today’s kids to read this book. Debate...more
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Read in January, 1974
Children's literature doesn't get much better or more enduring than the adventures of that mischevious little monkey, George. This is a hardbound edition of the first Curious George stories. Some people need to relax and get over the fact of George being taken from the jungle and put in a zoo. No, they probably wouldn't write a book that way these days but I wouldn't change or censor George any more than I would change or censor "Huckleberry Finn" or "The Wizard of Oz". I...more
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Strange that this is a children's book when it is about a man poaching a monkey who then goes on to waste public resources and escape from jail! Ha!
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unreadable. even at age 6, i dismissed the premise of the story out of hand, on the grounds that 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0 could NOT POSSIBLY be the phone number of the local firehouse, on accounta that's a long distance call. for crying out loud.
i did complain to one of my teachers that even though george was supposed to be a monkey, he had no tail, which made him an ape. my teacher responded that he may be a unique species of monkey that had no tail, a macaque.
so i asked him "what ki...more
i did complain to one of my teachers that even though george was supposed to be a monkey, he had no tail, which made him an ape. my teacher responded that he may be a unique species of monkey that had no tail, a macaque.
so i asked him "what ki...more
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The whole Curious George series is a classic childrens book.(This represents all other Curious George books I have read.)
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everyone loves how curious curious george is.
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