This special commemorative edition celebrates 40 years of Sendak's classic tale...
In this Caldecott Medal winner. Max, a wild and naughty boy, is sent to bed...
In this classic of modern children's literature, beloved by generations of readers...
As many of my friends know.... I lived with Margret Rey in her Cambridge, MA home in the early 90's, and remained a "girl finder" and good friend with her until her death in 1995. I'll not lay it all out today, but OOOHHH the stories to tell about life with Margret. I believe she is Curious George! You know, she actually looked like him? She told me her husband Hans who was the illustrator for the books slightly made him look like her. I can attest, it is true, especially the nose. :0 I don't have my books in front of my right now, but one day I will page through and try and remember all the funny things she told me and things I noticed that resemble their lives. Just a few from memory: Always a black or black and white cocker spaniel dog in the book. They always had one. If my memory serves me, it was a woman, Margret in the books walking the dog. Always a black man in the books, a good friend of theirs. In the kitchen in one of the books George is sitting on a red dictionary. She always had that red dictionary in her kitchen. One of my prized possessions is a dictionary Margret gave to me. During the holidays her publisher Houghton Mifflin Co. would always send a gift. That year they sent two, and she gave me one. Inside she affectionately wrote: For Emily: To stimulate and improve her mind. Then in her "signature" signature, she drew with a black sharpie pen "with (then she drew a heart and filled it in with a neon orange hi lite marker)from Margret Rey. More later.... the best part of it is my boys LOVE these books. Their favorite is Curious George Goes to the Hospital. Peter has it memorized.
Don't even think that I couldn't add this to my list. Curious George was, in fact, an imaginary friend when I was a child living in Boston. Now I own a Margaret Rey signed copy of this Curious George anthology (thanks to my mother and Mary Knell), and it is a book that travels with me (and has to be enjoyed by children--only when they are supervised and have no sticky hands!).
We borrowed this jumbo collection of Curious George stories from the library. I actually have some of my old hardcover CG books from the early 1970s, but I don't have all the classic stories in this book. I love reading these to my son. It brings back lots of great memories and it makes me realize that these entertaining and educational stories span all generations.
This has all of the Curious George stories from the original author himself. To me after a while they seem like the same story because George always gets into something he shouldn't, then into something else, then gets in trouble, then gets forgiven and all is well again. But to my two year old, it feels like lots of great and new stories and he doesn't mind the repetition, and he will sit for story after story without getting tired of it.
My son and I really enjoyed reading these wonderful stories together. The illustrations are also fantastic. Until reading the author information in this collection, I had no idea how close the world had come to missing out on Curious George. Margaret and H. A. Rey were German Jews who fled Paris just hours before the German army entered the French capital on June 14, 1940. They escaped on bicycles with picture books strapped to the racks, including the watercolors and a draft of the then unpublished Curious George.
A werewolf gang-war mini-epic written in free verse (!!!). If it had stopped...
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