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Curious George Gets a Medal: Gift Edition (Curious George Original Adventures)
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H.A. Rey
This special gift edition of the H. A. Rey classic features a real medal with an adorable image of Curious George on one side and his rocket ship on the other. The medal hangs from a breakaway velcro ribbon, allowing for safe and easy use. In this classic story, George tries to write a lettersoars into outer space, which results in the happiest day of his life. He gets a ...more
Pop Up Book, 48 pages
Published
May 30th 2005
by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
(first published 1957)
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The Curious George books are part of a larger genre of children's fiction, popular during the 1940's and 50's, of mild-mannered domesticated wild animals. (Other examples of this kind of story are Lyle, Lyle Crocodile, Crictor, and Babar.) This genre plays on the unusual characteristics of these anthropomorphized animals, who are so different from ordinary cat-and-dog pets. While these animals are always goodwilled, their wild nature causes trouble even as they seek to integrate into human so...more
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Curious George Gets a Medal is 15 pages longer than the typical 32 pages and has a great deal more text than I remember. I chose it for my Picture Books as Sequential Art class because Curious George books are so classic that they haven't been out of print since they were written in the 1940s.
When I went back to see which of the books for my class were created by a single author/illustrator, I found out that Hans and Margaret Rey, a married couple, worked closely together to create ...more
When I went back to see which of the books for my class were created by a single author/illustrator, I found out that Hans and Margaret Rey, a married couple, worked closely together to create ...more
Too long, drawn-out and disjointed story for my tastes. I love Curious George but haven't read these original books much; I am a much bigger fan of the board book, shortened versions/pieces of these longer original stories into different books.
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Morgan loves this story about how Curious George makes a mess of ink on the floor, attempts to clean it up, ends up at a science museum, and ends up going into space. The random story and misadventures of Curious George are fun.
Curious George seems to be in big trouble at the museum when he crashes the dinosaur display. Things change when the director asks him to bail out of flight. George is successful and earns a medal.
and then he goes to the moon, sort of
via an ink blot, a farm, some pigs, angry farmers and a scientist. and the man in the yellow hat.
via an ink blot, a farm, some pigs, angry farmers and a scientist. and the man in the yellow hat.
Frank's favorite part was when George got the farmers cow.
I have to admit as a mom that this is not my favorite George story.
I have to admit as a mom that this is not my favorite George story.
I just gotta say, I love Curious George. Not only that, but he captivates little children. Adorable pictures, funny stories...
George has quite a few mishaps before completing an adventure to space which he receives a medal for.
Curious George stories are great when teaching sequencing and cause and effect.
George is always ready for adventure and to help somebody.
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Amazing what that curious monkey can do! :-)
JAROS4-Rey
This 1957 book is a little dated (fountain pens, ink spills, blotter, first monkey in space) but that didn't detract from its charm at all. George gets into a lot of trouble in this book and my three-year-old son loved it.
We skip the part when the book reads, "George was so ashamed he wanted to die." Other than that, not bad. Jake likes it.
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Hans Augusto Rey was born on September 16, 1898, in Hamburg, Germany. He grew up there near the world-famous Hagenbeck Zoo, and developed a lifelong love for animals and drawing. Margarete Elisabeth Waldstein (who would be known to most of the world as Margret Rey) was also born in Hamburg on May 16, 1906. The two met briefly when Margret was a young girl, before she left Hamburg to study art. Th...more
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