Curious George Takes a Job book cover

Curious George is the protagonist of a series of popular children's books by the same name, written by Hans Augusto Rey and Margret Rey.^[1] The books feature a curious monkey named George, who is brought from his home in Africa by "The Man in The Yellow Hat" to live with him in a big city. Curious George is a childrens book series. ... Image File history File links CuriousGeorge. ... Image File history File links CuriousGeorge. ... A protagonist is the main figure of a piece of literature or drama and has the main part or role. ... Basic Characteristics There is some debate as to what constitutes childrens literature. ... Hans Augusto H.A. Rey (September 16, 1898 – August 26, 1977), together with his wife Margret Rey, were the authors and illustrators of childrens books, best known for their Curious George series. ... Margret Elizabeth Rey (May 16, 1906 – December 21, 1996), born Margarete Elisabeth Waldstein, was (with her husband H.A. Rey), the co-author and illustrator of childrens books, best known for their Curious George Although she was born in Germany, she fled to Brazil early in her life to... Approximate worldwide distribution of monkeys. ... A world map showing the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. ...

In the UK, George was originally called Zozo — this was apparently done to avoid using the name of the then king for a monkey.^{[citation needed]} George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George) (December 14, 1895 - February 6, 1952) was the third British monarch of the House of Windsor, reigning from December 11, 1936 to February 6, 1952. ...

Creation

The series was written and drawn by the team of H.A. Rey and Margret Rey, starting in 1941. According to Hans A. Rey's obituary in Sky and Telescope, the couple fled Paris in June 1940 with the "Curious George" manuscript in their luggage. ^[2][3] A German officer who searched it allowed the couple to pass because he thought it deserved publication,^{[citation needed]} unlikely to happen under Nazi occupation because the Reys were Jewish. At first only Hans A. Rey was credited for the work in order to differentiate the Reys' books from the large number of children's books written by female authors. Later, Hans Rey was credited for the illustrations and Margret Rey for the writing. The Reys produced many other children's books, but the Curious George series was the most popular. It has been re-edited continuously in the six decades since the first volume came out. The current United States publisher is Houghton Mifflin of Boston. Hans Augusto H.A. Rey (September 16, 1898 – August 26, 1977), together with his wife Margret Rey, were the authors and illustrators of childrens books, best known for their Curious George series. ... Margret Elizabeth Rey (May 16, 1906 – December 21, 1996), born Margarete Elisabeth Waldstein, was (with her husband H.A. Rey), the co-author and illustrator of childrens books, best known for their Curious George Although she was born in Germany, she fled to Brazil early in her life to... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... Sky & Telescope is a monthly magazine providing articles and information on all aspects of astronomy, space exploration, telescope equipment, and amateur telescope making and use. ... Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading educational publisher in the United States. ...

Books

The Curious George books have been segmented by Houghton Mifflin into a few categories: classic favorites, board books with scenes from the original books, books adapted from the film series, and new adventures. Classic favorites include the original seven books, all written and illustrated by the Reys. Board books are stories and books designed specifically for small children. The books adapted from the film series were published the 1980s and are mostly out of print. However, several have been re-released with new cover art. New adventures include books "illustrated in the style of H. A. Rey" by Mary O'Keefe Young, Vipah Interactive, Martha Weston, and Anna Grossnickle Hines. Around the world, the adventures of Curious George have been translated in many languages, and George takes on names such as Peter Pedal in Denmark, Nysgjerrige Nils in Norway, Nicke Nyfiken in Sweden, Hitomane Kozaru in Japan, and Jorge El Curioso in Spanish speaking countries.

Curious George "Original Adventures"

Sometimes dubbed the "Original Adventures", these original seven titles are completely by the series creators, Margret & H.A. Rey.

• Curious George (1941)
• Curious George Takes a Job (1947)
• Curious George Rides a Bike (1952)
• Curious George Gets a Medal (1957)
• Curious George Flies a Kite (1958)
• Curious George Learns the Alphabet (1963)
• Curious George Goes to the Hospital (1966)

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Books adapted from telefilms

This series of books based on the telefilm series was edited by Margret Rey and Alan J. Shalleck. Alan J. Shalleck (November 14, 1929 — February 6, 2006) was an American writer and producer for childrens programming on television, most known for his work on later Curious George books and the 1980s television shorts. ...

• Curious George Goes to the Aquarium (1984)
• Curious George Visits the Zoo (1985)
• Curious George and the Pizza (1985)
• Curious George Plays Baseball (1986)
• Curious George Walks the Pets (1986)
• Curious George at the Airport (1987)
• Curious George and the Dump Truck (1988)
• Curious George Goes Fishing (1988)
• Curious George at the Fire Station (1988)
• Curious George at the Ballet (1988)
• Curious George Goes Sledding (1988)
• Curious George at the Beach (1988)
• Curious George at the Laundromat (1988)
• Curious George Goes to a Restaurant (1988)
• Curious George Goes to the Circus (1988)
• Curious George Visits a Police Station (1988)
• Curious George at the Railroad Station (1988)
• Curious George Goes Hiking (1988)
• Curious George Visits an Amusement Park (1988)
• Curious George Goes to the Dentist (1989)
• Curious George Goes to an Ice Cream Shop (1989)
• Curious George Goes to School (1989)
• Curious George and the Dinosaur (1989)
• Curious George Goes to a Toy Store (1989)
• Curious George Goes Camping (1990)
• Curious George Goes to an Air Show (1991)
• Curious George Bakes a Cake (1993)

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Curious George "New Adventures"

This series is illustrated in the style of Margret and H.A. Rey, by a variety of credited and uncredited artists.

• Curious George Goes to a Chocolate Factory (1998) Illustrated by Vipah Interactive
• Curious George and the Puppies (1998) Illustrated by Vipah Interactive
• Curious George Makes Pancakes (1998) Illustrated by Vipah Interactive
• Curious George Feeds the Animals (1998) Illustrated by Vipah Interactive
• Curious George Goes to a Movie (1998) Illustrated by Vipah Interactive
• Curious George and the Hot Air Balloon (1998) Illustrated by Vipah Interactive
• Curious George in the Snow (1998) Illustrated by Vipah Interactive
• Curious George's Dream (1998) Illustrated by Vipah Interactive
• Curious George Goes to the Beach (1999) Illustrated by Vipah Interactive
• Curious George and the Dump Truck (1999) Illustrated by Vipah Interactive
• Curious George Goes Camping (1999) Illustrated by Vipah Interactive
• Curious George at the Parade (1999) Illustrated by Vipah Interactive
• Curious George Goes to a Costume Party (2001) Illustrated by Martha Weston
• Curious George in the Big City (2001) Illustrated by Martha Weston
• Curious George Takes a Train (2002) Illustrated by Martha Weston
• Curious George Visits a Toy Store (2002) Illustrated by Martha Weston
• Curious George and the Birthday Surprise (2003) Illustrated by Martha Weston
• Curious George Visits the Library (2003) Illustrated by Martha Weston
• Curious George and the Firefighters (2004) Illustrated by Anna Grossnickle Hines
• Curious George's First Day of School (2005) Illustrated by Anna Grossnickle Hines
• Curious George's Dinosaur Discovery (2006) Illustrated by Anna Grossnickle Hines
• Curious George at the Baseball Game (2006) Illustrated by Anna Grossnickle Hines
• Merry Christmas, Curious George (2006) Illustrated by Mary O'Keefe Young, written by Cathy Hapka
• Curious George at the Aquarium (2007) Illustrated by Anna Grossnickle Hines

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Curious George Takes a Job

As stated in an interview, the book Curious George Takes a Job was inspired by a true story. A boy, whose name is not known today, was born in Hamburg in 1909 with Down's Syndrome. He was institutionalized by his parents, condemned to a life at the facility. This article is about the city in Germany. ...

When the boy was 15, he escaped from the institution and fled into the city streets. Hungry and in search of food, he found the briefly unattended kitchen of a restaurant, where a cook found him playing with the food and eating it. The cook, intrigued, put him to work to clean dishes, and took him home that evening. Within the following days, the cook arranged with a friend to have the boy wash windows at an office building. For other uses, see Restaurant (disambiguation). ...

The boy's work went well at first. But in one office, he found colored paints. He used them to paint a mural on the wall of the office. The tenant returned to his office after a lunch break to find the boy busy painting, and he started to chase after him. The boy jumped out a third-story window, breaking some bones.

The story made local headlines. After several weeks of hospitalization, the boy was formally adopted by the cook, and he later became the star of an amateur movie. He was recognized in the coming years as a talented artist. Some of his artwork was sold by the renowned bookseller, A.S.W. Rosenbach.

While his identity, art, and other details of his life were lost in the ravages of World War II, he is believed to have been put to death by the government of Nazi Germany. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... National Socialism redirects here. ...

Interpretations

Type of Monkey

Curious George is a tailless monkey with some human characteristics, including human intelligence and bipedal locomotion. (Although most monkeys have tails, several species of Macaque are tailless.) The authors did not identify the exact species of monkey. George has many of the physical characteristics of a juvenile chimpanzee which are often mistaken for a monkey but are actually apes. For other uses, see Macaca. ... Type species Simia troglodytes Blumenbach, 1775 distribution of Species Pan troglodytes Pan paniscus Chimpanzee, often shortened to chimp, is the common name for the two extant species of apes in the genus Pan. ...

Kidnapping?

Some [1] [2] argue that George is kidnapped by The Man in the Yellow Hat. From the first book:

"What a nice little monkey," the man thought. "I would like to take him home with me." He put his hat on the ground and, of course, George was curious. He came down from the tree to look at the large yellow hat... George picked it up and put it on.

The hat covered George's head. He couldn't see. The man picked him up quickly and popped him into a bag. George was caught.

The picture accompanying this text depicts George in a sack, only his head visible, with a very surprised look on his face. This page is about the phrase; for other uses of the phrase, see The Man (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see George. ...

The man with the big yellow hat put George into a little boat, and a sailor rowed them both across the water to a big ship. George was sad, but he was still a bit curious.

In the illustration accompanying this text, George seems quite happy as he looks at a couple of passing fish; scholar Daniel Greenstone finds George's "kidnapping and imprisonment striking...because of the monkey's nonchalant response."^[4]

Other media

Curious George and The Man in the Yellow Hat make appearances at Universal Studios Florida. Curious George (also known simply as George), is a non-anthropomorphized chimpanzee who became the protagonist and main character in the Curious George series of childrens books drawn and written by husband-and-wife team H.A. Rey and Margret Rey. ... Universal Studios Florida is a theme park in Orlando, Florida, part of the Universal Orlando Resort. ...

Also at Universal Studios Florida is the kids' playland "Curious George Goes to Town". It has two areas: An outside wet playground with water jets, water guns, and giant buckets that empty their contents on guests below, and an indoor playground called the "Ball Factory" where guests can launch soft foam balls at each other or provided targets; Guests are provided with many opportunities to launch balls with various cannons or even fill large buckets above the area, which dump their contents every two and half minutes.

There was a series of animated TV films made (beginning in 1980) featuring the character, which were then adapted into books themselves (making up part of the New Adventures series listed above). This series was produced and co-written by Alan Shalleck. The bouncing ball animation (below) consists of these 6 frames. ... A television movie (also known as a TV film, TV movie, TV-movie, feature-length drama, made-for-TV movie, movie of the week (MOTW or MOW), single drama, telemovie, telefilm, or two-hour-long drama) is a film that is produced for and originally distributed by a television network. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... Alan J. Shalleck (November 14, 1929 — February 6, 2006) was an American writer and producer for childrens programming on television, most known for his work on later Curious George books and the 1980s television shorts. ...

There has been a stop-motion adaptation of two Curious George stories, created with puppet-figures by noted animator John Clark Matthews (who also used a similar technique for his film of Frog and Toad Together). Stop motion is an animation technique which makes things that are static appear to be moving. ...

An animated film, Curious George, featuring Will Ferrell as the originally unnamed man in the yellow hat was released on February 10, 2006. In this film (in which the man is referred to as "Ted"), Curious George secretly follows the man onto the ship to the city on his own accord. Frank Welker provided the vocal effects of Curious George. Animation refers to the process in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result. ... Curious George is a traditionally-animated film version of the childrens stories by H.A. and Margret Rey. ... John William Will Ferrell (born July 16, 1967[1]) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated American comedian, actor and writer who first established himself as a cast member of Saturday Night Live, and has since gone on to a successful film career. ... is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Franklin W. Welker (born March 12, 1946) is an American voice actor. ...

A new TV series, based on the movie, debuted September 4, 2006 on PBS Kids as part of Miss Lori and Hooper's schedule block. Curious George is a 2006 animated television series based on the popular Curious George childrens book series and motion picture, which features Jeff Bennett as the voice of The Man with the Yellow Hat. ... The PBS Kids Girl, Dot, and Boy, Dash, logo. ... Miss Lori and Hooper are the hosts of a block of childrens television shows which airs on PBS Kids. ...

There is also a Curious George video game that was released on February 2, 2006, published by Namco and developed by Monkey Bar Games, a division of Vicious Cycle Software. Curious George is a video game published by Namco, and developed by Monkey Bar Games (a division of Vicious Cycle Software). ... is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about Namco, a Japanese leisure company and game developer. ... Vicious Cycle Software is a computer game development company based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. ...

The Curious George brand recently (mid-2006) joined with Welch's jelly for a collectible of six jars.

A children's bookstore in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, is known as Curious George (formerly Curious George Goes To Wordsworth), and carries a considerable amount of licensed Curious George merchandise. It is the last remaining property of Wordsworth Books, a former local general-interest bookstore that closed in the early 2000s. Chess players in Harvard Square in August of 2005 Harvard Square is a large triangular area in the center of Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue, Brattle Street, and John F. Kennedy Street. ... Location in Middlesex County in Massachusetts Coordinates: , Country State County Middlesex Settled 1630 Incorporated 1636 Government  - Type Mayor-City Council  - Mayor Kenneth Reeves (D) Area  - Total 7. ...

Curious George & Vivendi Universal

In 2001, when Jean-Marie Messier served as CEO of French media giant Vivendi Universal, he seized upon Curious George (a character of Houghton Mifflin Company, part of VU) as a perfect embodiment of the sprawling conglomerate's various activities, which reached as far afield as the French mobile phone operator Cegetel (Messier was an early proponent of entertainment downloads via mobile phones.) Waxing enthusiastic as he met with investors and the media, Messier couldn't resist talking up George. Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Jean-Marie Messier (born December 13, 1957) is a French businessman known for his flamboyance. ... Vivendi Universal (VU) is a French conglomerate active in media and communications with activities in music, television and film, publishing, telecommunications and the Internet. ... Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading educational publisher in the United States. ...

Although never officially raised to the status of mascot, George did audition for the part in full-page ads that Vivendi Universal ran in the pages of such papers as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times during summer 2001. Vivendi Universal (VU) is a French conglomerate active in media and communications with activities in music, television and film, publishing, telecommunications and the Internet. ... The Wall Street Journal is an influential international daily newspaper published in New York City, New York with an average daily circulation of 1,800,607 (2002). ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... This just IN !!!:paris hiltons new dog. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...

"Wherever there's a curious mind to feed and imagination to inspire, you'll be seeing Vivendi Universal", the ads, featuring George's image, read. Vivendi Universal (VU) is a French conglomerate active in media and communications with activities in music, television and film, publishing, telecommunications and the Internet. ...

But Messier's own reign proved short-lived. In 2000, Vivendi, the Paris-based utilities company, had merged with Seagram Co., which then owned Universal Studios, and Canal+ to create Vivendi Universal. But by 2002, Messier resigned under pressure, and in 2004, Vivendi Universal merged with NBC to form NBC Universal. Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... The Seagram Company Ltd. ... This article is about the American media conglomerate. ... Canal+ (Canal Plus, meaning Channel Plus/More in French) is a French premium pay television channel launched in 1984. ... Vivendi Universal (VU) is a French conglomerate active in media and communications with activities in music, television and film, publishing, telecommunications and the Internet. ... This article is about the television network. ... NBC Universal is a media and entertainment conglomerate formed in May 2004 by the combination of General Electrics NBC with Vivendi Universal Entertainment, part of Vivendi Universal. ...

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External links

• Curious George Summary of Curious George books and image gallery
• Houghton Mifflin's listing of Curious George products
• Complete Catalog of Curious George Products
• PBSKids.org Curious George Pre-School Education Site
• Wall Street Journal on Curious George