Merry Christmas, Curious George (with stickers)

by H. A. Rey, Catherine Hapka, Mary O'Keefe Young (Illustrator)

Overview

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 284. Not illustrated. Chapters: Shopping Districts and Streets in France, Streets in Bordeaux, Streets in Brest, Streets in Lyon, Streets in Paris, Champs-Élysées, Les Halles, Rue de Rivoli, Paris, Montée de La Grande Côte, Rue Sainte-Catherine, Lyon, Rue Édouard-Herriot, Rue de La Pompe, Rue Burdeau, Rue Du Bât-D'argent, Rue Du Bœuf, Boulevard Des Belges, Avenue de Saxe, Rue Du Bac, Paris, Rue de La Chaussée-D'antin, Passage de L'argue, Rue Victor-Hugo, Lyon, Rue Lanterne, Rue Royale, Lyon, Rue Garibaldi, Rue de L'abbaye, Rue de La Harpe, Paris, Rue de Gadagne, Rue de La Bourse, Montée Des Carmélites, Rue de La République, Rue de Créqui, Rue de L'arbre-Sec, Rue de Richelieu, Rue de L'université, Lyon, Rue Mercière, Rue Des Capucins, Rue Dumenge, Rue de La Poulaillerie, Rue Saint-Denis, Rue Duguesclin, Rue D'austerlitz, Cours Charlemagne, Rue Des Marronniers, Rue Tronchet, Cour Des Voraces, Rue Lainerie, Rue Lepic, Rue de La Huchette, Paris, List of Streets and Squares in Lyon, Rue Saint-Honoré, Passage Thiaffait, Rue Du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Rue de Vendôme, Rue Saint-Malo, Rue Saint-Séverin, Paris, Rue Des Archers, Rue de Provence, Rue Mouffetard, Paris, Rue Du Faubourg-Saint-Denis, Avenue Berthelot, Avenue Montaigne, Rue Saint-Jacques, Paris, Rue de Brest, Rue Laffitte, Rue de Caumartin, Sainte-Catherine Street, Rue Des Francs-Bourgeois, Rue de La Bûcherie, Boulevard Haussmann, Rue Des Rosiers, Passage Des Panoramas, Boulevard Des Pyrénées, Rue de Montmorency, Rue Marcadet, Rue de La Paix, Paris, Rue de Vaugirard, Rue Zadkine, Rue Pierre Charron, Paris, Rue Du Chat-Qui-Pêche, Rue de La Victoire, Rue Montorgueil, Promenade de La Croisette, Rue Adolphe Mille, Paris, Rue D'assas, Rue Joubert, Passage Du Havre, Rue Royale, Paris, Rue de Nesle, Rue de Tilsitt, Rue D'alésia, Rue Dauphine, Street Names of Paris, 1er Arrondissement, C...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781328695581
Publisher:	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date:	09/12/2017
Series:	Curious George Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	24
Sales rank:	424,085
Product dimensions:	7.70(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

In their nearly 40-year-long professional collaboration, the husband-and-wife team of Margret and H. A. Rey created one of the most memorable figures in 20th-century children¿s literature: Curious George, the little monkey with an insatiable appetite for adventure.

The Reys, like George, had tremendous zest for travel and new experience. Both were born in Germany, H. A. (Hans Augusto) in 1898, and Margret (Margarete Elisabeth Waldstein) in 1906. Although the two became acquainted in their homeland, they fell in love after each moved to Rio de Janeiro, where they married in 1935. Their honeymoon led them to Paris, where Hans published his first book for children, Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys, introducing Curious George as a peripheral character.

In 1940 the Reys, both of whom were Jewish, fled Paris as the Nazis mounted their invasion of the city, making their way by bicycle to Spain, by train to Lisbon, then to Brazil, New York City, and finally Cambridge, Massachusetts, where they made their home. The few belongings they carried with them from Europe included the manuscript of Curious George, which Houghton Mifflin published in 1941. Together they created six more classic Curious George adventures: Curious George Flies a Kite, Curious George Gets a Medal, Curious George Learns the Alphabet, Curious George Goes to the Hospital, Curious George Rides a Bike, and Curious George Takes a Job.

Like Babar, Bambi, Pippi Longstocking, and countless other children¿s book characters, George is, for all purposes, an orphan, one who was separated from his family. (He was kidnapped, in fact, by The Man with the Yellow Hat, who has gained his own degree of fame through the series.) Admonished to stay home and be good, George invariably lets his curiosity get the better of him and winds up in some kind of trouble every time: in jail, on a runaway cow, kidnapped by circus promoters, or in the hospital. In a possible nod to the Reys¿s own hair-raising escape from the Nazis, every story involves an antic chase scene. And every story ends in a happy reunion with the man with the yellow hat, who is George¿s trainer, keeper, teacher, disciplinarian, and parental figure.

According to their publisher, the Reys were not just a writer/designer team. Although Hans was primarily focused on ideas and illustrations, and Margret on writing, their work often overlapped. The result was pure magic. The Curious George books transcend time and space, driven by a sincere understanding of the forces that propel children: curiosity, resourcefulness, and love of home.

Place of Birth:

Hamburg, Germany; Margret in 1906, and H.A. in 1898

Place of Death:

Cambridge, Massachusetts; Margret died in 1996, H.A. in 1977

Website:

http://www.curiousgeorge.com