What do you think?
Rate this book
A Treasury of Curious George
Curious George has found a lasting place in the hearts of millions of boys and girls all over the world ever since he was brought to life by Margaret and H.A. Rey more than sixty years ago. Here you will find eight timeless stories about George, the man with the yellow hat, and their friends.
In this hefty 192-page hardcover treasury, the eight stories are illustrated in the charcoal style of H.A. Rey by Martha Weston and Vipah Interactive*:
'Curious George Takes a Train' (2002);
'Curious George Visits a Toy Store' (2002);
'Curious George and the Dump Truck' (1999);
'Curious George and the Birthday Surprise' (2003);
'Curious George Goes Camping' (1999;
'Curious George Goes to a Costume Party' (2001);
'Curious George Visits the Library' (2003);
'Curious George in the Big City' (2001).
A wonderful collection for your own mischievous monkey. For more monkey fun, investigate www.curiousgeorge.com and discover all the latest on Curious George books, promotions, games, activities, and more!
* Vipah Interactive comprises of: C Becker, D Fakkel, M Jensen, S SanGiacomo, C Witte and C Yu.
In this hefty 192-page hardcover treasury, the eight stories are illustrated in the charcoal style of H.A. Rey by Martha Weston and Vipah Interactive*:
'Curious George Takes a Train' (2002);
'Curious George Visits a Toy Store' (2002);
'Curious George and the Dump Truck' (1999);
'Curious George and the Birthday Surprise' (2003);
'Curious George Goes Camping' (1999;
'Curious George Goes to a Costume Party' (2001);
'Curious George Visits the Library' (2003);
'Curious George in the Big City' (2001).
A wonderful collection for your own mischievous monkey. For more monkey fun, investigate www.curiousgeorge.com and discover all the latest on Curious George books, promotions, games, activities, and more!
* Vipah Interactive comprises of: C Becker, D Fakkel, M Jensen, S SanGiacomo, C Witte and C Yu.
198 pages, Hardcover
First published October 25, 2004
About the author
Margret Rey
210 books114 followersMargret 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 children's books, best known for their Curious George
Although she was born in Germany, she fled to Brazil early in her life to escape Nazism. While there, she met her future husband Hans (who was a salesman and also from Germany). They married in 1935 and moved to Paris, France that same year.
While in Paris, Hans's animal drawings came to the attention of French publisher, who commissioned him to write a children's book. The result, Rafi and the Nine Monkeys, is little remembered today, but one of its characters, an adorably impish monkey named Curious George, was such a success that the couple considered writing a book just about him. Their work was interrupted with the outbreak of World War II. As Jews, the Reys decided to flee Paris before the Nazis seized the city. Hans built two bicycles, and they fled Paris just a few hours before it fell. Among the meager possessions they brought with them was the illustrated manuscript of Curious George.
The Reys' odyssey brought them to the Spanish border, where they bought train tickets to Lisbon. From there they returned to Brazil, where they had met five years earlier, but this time they continued to New York, New York. The books were published by Houghton Mifflin in 1941, though certain changes had to be introduced because of the technology of the time. Hans and Margret originally planned to use watercolors to illustrate the books, but since they were responsible for the color separation, he changed these to the cartoon-like images that continue to feature in each of the books. (A collector's edition with the original watercolors was recently released.)
Curious George was an instant success, and the Reys were commissioned to write more adventures of the mischievous monkey and his friend, the Man in the Yellow Hat. They wrote seven stories in all, with Hans mainly doing the illustrations and Margret working mostly on the stories, though they both admitted to sharing the work and cooperating fully in every stage of development. At first, however, Margret's name was left off the cover, ostensibly because there was a glut of women already writing children's fiction. In later editions, this was corrected, and Margret now receives full credit for her role in developing the stories.
Margret and her husband moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1963, in a house close to Harvard Square. Following her husband's death in 1977, Margret continued writing, and in 1979, became a Professor of Creative Writing at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Starting in 1980, she also began to collaborate with Alan Shalleck on a series of short films featuring Curious George and more than two dozen additional books.
In 1989 Margret Rey established the Curious George Foundation to help creative children and prevent cruelty to animals. In 1996, she made major donations to the Boston Public Library and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She was also a long-time supporter of the Longy School of Music. The Reys spent twenty summers in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire, to enable H.A. Rey to better observe the stars for his astronomy writing. They became an integral part of the Waterville community and their legacy is honored by The Margret and H.A. Rey Center and the Curious George Cottage located there.
Dr. Lena Y. de Grummond, a professor in the field of library science (specializing in children's literature) at The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Miss. contacted the Reys in 1966 about the university's new children's literature collection. H.A. and Margret made a donation of a pair of sketches at the time. In 1996, after Margret's death, it was revealed in her will that the entire literary estate of the Reys were to be donated to the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at Southern Miss.
Although she was born in Germany, she fled to Brazil early in her life to escape Nazism. While there, she met her future husband Hans (who was a salesman and also from Germany). They married in 1935 and moved to Paris, France that same year.
While in Paris, Hans's animal drawings came to the attention of French publisher, who commissioned him to write a children's book. The result, Rafi and the Nine Monkeys, is little remembered today, but one of its characters, an adorably impish monkey named Curious George, was such a success that the couple considered writing a book just about him. Their work was interrupted with the outbreak of World War II. As Jews, the Reys decided to flee Paris before the Nazis seized the city. Hans built two bicycles, and they fled Paris just a few hours before it fell. Among the meager possessions they brought with them was the illustrated manuscript of Curious George.
The Reys' odyssey brought them to the Spanish border, where they bought train tickets to Lisbon. From there they returned to Brazil, where they had met five years earlier, but this time they continued to New York, New York. The books were published by Houghton Mifflin in 1941, though certain changes had to be introduced because of the technology of the time. Hans and Margret originally planned to use watercolors to illustrate the books, but since they were responsible for the color separation, he changed these to the cartoon-like images that continue to feature in each of the books. (A collector's edition with the original watercolors was recently released.)
Curious George was an instant success, and the Reys were commissioned to write more adventures of the mischievous monkey and his friend, the Man in the Yellow Hat. They wrote seven stories in all, with Hans mainly doing the illustrations and Margret working mostly on the stories, though they both admitted to sharing the work and cooperating fully in every stage of development. At first, however, Margret's name was left off the cover, ostensibly because there was a glut of women already writing children's fiction. In later editions, this was corrected, and Margret now receives full credit for her role in developing the stories.
Margret and her husband moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1963, in a house close to Harvard Square. Following her husband's death in 1977, Margret continued writing, and in 1979, became a Professor of Creative Writing at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Starting in 1980, she also began to collaborate with Alan Shalleck on a series of short films featuring Curious George and more than two dozen additional books.
In 1989 Margret Rey established the Curious George Foundation to help creative children and prevent cruelty to animals. In 1996, she made major donations to the Boston Public Library and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She was also a long-time supporter of the Longy School of Music. The Reys spent twenty summers in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire, to enable H.A. Rey to better observe the stars for his astronomy writing. They became an integral part of the Waterville community and their legacy is honored by The Margret and H.A. Rey Center and the Curious George Cottage located there.
Dr. Lena Y. de Grummond, a professor in the field of library science (specializing in children's literature) at The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Miss. contacted the Reys in 1966 about the university's new children's literature collection. H.A. and Margret made a donation of a pair of sketches at the time. In 1996, after Margret's death, it was revealed in her will that the entire literary estate of the Reys were to be donated to the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at Southern Miss.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 30 of 106 reviews
May 9, 2014
I like the story called Curious George Goes to the Library, because I like going to the library because I like getting books to put them on Goodreads so I could get more books after I add all the books that are in my house, you have to have to have a lot of time to go on Goodreads, like on Sunday you have enough time to go on Goodreads.
This is my first time going on Goodreads and I'm excited.
This is my first time going on Goodreads and I'm excited.
March 22, 2019
I never realised that my parents were familiar with Curious George. Curious was often getting into scrapes and my parents would often call me a little monkey, which Curious is known as. The difference was that there was usually an adjective preceding the Little Monkey moniker applied to me - it was more often than not, 'cheeky' or 'naughty' because unlike Curious, whose adventures usually turned out well for everybody, my escapades usually did not! However Curious is the cutest little monkey you can imagine so perhaps that was why my parents addressed me thus - doubtful I'm sure!!
Anyway, here are eight stories from the Curious George canon and all of them see him initially getting into some sort of trouble, or causing some sort of havoc but all end up with he and his companion, the unnamed man with the yellow hat, being happily reunited and with no unresolved problems being left behind.
The book begins with George taking a train with his companion, who loses him in the crowds. George spots the arrivals and departures boards and wonders what all the numbers are. He investigates and chaos ensues as he switches them around. He quickly departs the area and heads for the train and that is where he redeems himself with an heroic deed and he ends up in the cab of his train as it departs, with his companion also on board.
Next he visits a toy store, which was having a grand opening. He sneaks in ahead of the queue and proceeds to play with the toys and the monkey business begins. Once again the end result is happiness as the proprietor finds that having a monkey to help with sales was a huge success and she rewards George with an appropriate present.
His third adventure sees him manoeuvring a dump truck loaded with soil. This combined with him hearing a loud quacking sound and then spotting a duck and her family results once more in a disaster. But, as is always the case, everything turns out rosy for everyone, including the ducks.
George has a birthday surprise in his fourth adventure, which involves the arrival of an ice cream van in his neighbourhood. The man with the yellow hat had told George, 'You can help me by staying out of trouble.' This, as we know, is easier said that done for George and sure enough he gets into plenty of trouble as he discovered items for a surprise party and proceeds to decorate the house with them. And then George decides to decorate the cake that he discovers hidden in the kitchen; disaster once more but fortunately he has a remedy for the mess that he has created. He cleans it up with the help of some canine friends before yellow hat returns to announce, 'It's time for the surprise.' And, yes, it was a party that ended with George blowing out all the candles on his by then ice cream decorated cake.
The couple go camping in his fifth adventure and, unsurprisingly there is chaos at the campsite, particularly when George throws a bucket of water on a camper's fire. He runs away and gets lost in the forest but as he panics and gets into other scrapes he spots something that alerts him to danger. And in true Curious George style he sorts it out much to the delight of yellow hat and the forest ranger.
A costume party leads George into more trouble, especially when he appears to be a ghost and frightens all the guests. But when they discover that it is only George who had accidentally been covered by a sheet over his cowboy outfit, everyone is relieved and the party reaches a successful conclusion with George winning two prizes for his fancy dress.
My favourite tale is George visiting the library where he rides a trolley full of books with the imaginable consequences. But he makes good, helps sort everything out and, back home, he ends up on the knee of yellow hat reading some of the books he has borrowed from the library.
Finally George visits the big city with his friend and after some more chaotic adventures, when reunited, they both discover that the best part of the holidays is spending time together. And us readers all enjoy spending time reading about Curious George's surprising adventures - he is indeed the cutest little monkey around!
All eight stories are illustrated in the delightful style of H.A. Rey by Martha Weston and the members of Vipah Interactive, who are named in the book description.
Anyway, here are eight stories from the Curious George canon and all of them see him initially getting into some sort of trouble, or causing some sort of havoc but all end up with he and his companion, the unnamed man with the yellow hat, being happily reunited and with no unresolved problems being left behind.
The book begins with George taking a train with his companion, who loses him in the crowds. George spots the arrivals and departures boards and wonders what all the numbers are. He investigates and chaos ensues as he switches them around. He quickly departs the area and heads for the train and that is where he redeems himself with an heroic deed and he ends up in the cab of his train as it departs, with his companion also on board.
Next he visits a toy store, which was having a grand opening. He sneaks in ahead of the queue and proceeds to play with the toys and the monkey business begins. Once again the end result is happiness as the proprietor finds that having a monkey to help with sales was a huge success and she rewards George with an appropriate present.
His third adventure sees him manoeuvring a dump truck loaded with soil. This combined with him hearing a loud quacking sound and then spotting a duck and her family results once more in a disaster. But, as is always the case, everything turns out rosy for everyone, including the ducks.
George has a birthday surprise in his fourth adventure, which involves the arrival of an ice cream van in his neighbourhood. The man with the yellow hat had told George, 'You can help me by staying out of trouble.' This, as we know, is easier said that done for George and sure enough he gets into plenty of trouble as he discovered items for a surprise party and proceeds to decorate the house with them. And then George decides to decorate the cake that he discovers hidden in the kitchen; disaster once more but fortunately he has a remedy for the mess that he has created. He cleans it up with the help of some canine friends before yellow hat returns to announce, 'It's time for the surprise.' And, yes, it was a party that ended with George blowing out all the candles on his by then ice cream decorated cake.
The couple go camping in his fifth adventure and, unsurprisingly there is chaos at the campsite, particularly when George throws a bucket of water on a camper's fire. He runs away and gets lost in the forest but as he panics and gets into other scrapes he spots something that alerts him to danger. And in true Curious George style he sorts it out much to the delight of yellow hat and the forest ranger.
A costume party leads George into more trouble, especially when he appears to be a ghost and frightens all the guests. But when they discover that it is only George who had accidentally been covered by a sheet over his cowboy outfit, everyone is relieved and the party reaches a successful conclusion with George winning two prizes for his fancy dress.
My favourite tale is George visiting the library where he rides a trolley full of books with the imaginable consequences. But he makes good, helps sort everything out and, back home, he ends up on the knee of yellow hat reading some of the books he has borrowed from the library.
Finally George visits the big city with his friend and after some more chaotic adventures, when reunited, they both discover that the best part of the holidays is spending time together. And us readers all enjoy spending time reading about Curious George's surprising adventures - he is indeed the cutest little monkey around!
All eight stories are illustrated in the delightful style of H.A. Rey by Martha Weston and the members of Vipah Interactive, who are named in the book description.
August 6, 2013
A wonderful collection of great Curious George stories. A solid level 2 reading level book, my 5 yr old has been reading this all on his own for a week. He'd read a chapter (a story) or two and then use some of his new bookmarkers I bought him to keep track of where he was. When he finally finished it, he was so proud of himself for finishing a chapter book all on his own! There are more of these, I recently saw a blue one at a used book store, but decided to wait until he finished this one to see if he'd finish it. He did! He loves making special new places all over the house with blankets and stuffed animals to read his books. I'm so happy he's finally reading on his own! And if Curious George helps, so be it!
January 4, 2023
Read this - all 8 stories - multiple times to my 2-1/2 year-old grandson over the holidays. His favorite story was "George Cake" - aka "Curious George and the Birthday Surprise."
June 26, 2020
Look....it was nearly 200 pages. I’m counting it.
September 29, 2013
My two-year-old son Hugh's on-going love - nay, obsession - with "the George book" continues. This is the second book of collected stories I've added to his ever-expanding library (I have one more to give him, which I'm saving for our 21-hour-long plane ride as a surprise!), and he quickly embraced it with just as much love as he did
Curious George: Stories to Share
(the yellow one).
The stories in this volume are:
Curious George Takes a Train (2002)
Curious George Visits a Toy Store (2002)
Curious George and the Dump Truck (1999)
Curious George and the Birthday Surprise (2003)
Curious George Goes Camping (1999)
Curious George Goes to a Costume Party (2001)
Curious George Visits the Library (2003)
Curious George in the Big City (2001)
Again, I don't really know/understand who exactly wrote these stories, which are based on Margret and HA Rey's character, and the illustrators are all different, but for as much as adults (including myself and my husband) get incredibly weary of reading these stories over and over again, I have at least realised and come to appreciate the value Hugh is getting from them. Part of the reason why we don't enjoy reading these stories is that the text is rather tiresome, quite slow and sometimes even a bit ridiculous or awkward.
But I realised fairly recently that the text also covers some serious grammatical ground. All the tenses are included, there are lots of variations on the way you can say something, there are expressions and common phrases that are very much a part of the English language, and all this great language teaching is wrapped up in a rather charming but naïve little monkey's antics - a character small children can really relate to as he often gets into trouble or makes a mess without meaning to, and people are angry with him sometimes but he's also helpful and shows how you can make up for your mistakes. He's small and doesn't understand everything about his (human) world, just like toddlers and other young children, and he just needs some space to figure things out. Curious George is the superhero-like character for young children, as in he fills that role until they grow out of him and turn to Batman etc. (Other picture book characters can fill this role too, of course. Curious George is the one my own son has connected with.)
So I try not to begrudge my boy the pleasure of George stories, even though I tend to go on auto-pilot when I read them and can actually compartmentalise my mind so that while one half of me is reading aloud the way I always do, with inflection and good pacing etc., the rest of me is thinking about completely different things. The text seems so bad to adults but it does serve a purpose, and for the most part it successfully connects the dots between the lively illustrations and the imaginations of a young audience.
The stories in this volume are:
Curious George Takes a Train (2002)
Curious George Visits a Toy Store (2002)
Curious George and the Dump Truck (1999)
Curious George and the Birthday Surprise (2003)
Curious George Goes Camping (1999)
Curious George Goes to a Costume Party (2001)
Curious George Visits the Library (2003)
Curious George in the Big City (2001)
Again, I don't really know/understand who exactly wrote these stories, which are based on Margret and HA Rey's character, and the illustrators are all different, but for as much as adults (including myself and my husband) get incredibly weary of reading these stories over and over again, I have at least realised and come to appreciate the value Hugh is getting from them. Part of the reason why we don't enjoy reading these stories is that the text is rather tiresome, quite slow and sometimes even a bit ridiculous or awkward.
But I realised fairly recently that the text also covers some serious grammatical ground. All the tenses are included, there are lots of variations on the way you can say something, there are expressions and common phrases that are very much a part of the English language, and all this great language teaching is wrapped up in a rather charming but naïve little monkey's antics - a character small children can really relate to as he often gets into trouble or makes a mess without meaning to, and people are angry with him sometimes but he's also helpful and shows how you can make up for your mistakes. He's small and doesn't understand everything about his (human) world, just like toddlers and other young children, and he just needs some space to figure things out. Curious George is the superhero-like character for young children, as in he fills that role until they grow out of him and turn to Batman etc. (Other picture book characters can fill this role too, of course. Curious George is the one my own son has connected with.)
So I try not to begrudge my boy the pleasure of George stories, even though I tend to go on auto-pilot when I read them and can actually compartmentalise my mind so that while one half of me is reading aloud the way I always do, with inflection and good pacing etc., the rest of me is thinking about completely different things. The text seems so bad to adults but it does serve a purpose, and for the most part it successfully connects the dots between the lively illustrations and the imaginations of a young audience.
February 16, 2022
4.5☆: I’ve resorted to reading children’s books to fill out my reading goal so here’s some thoughts I had about one of my favorite books as a kid:
- how tf do the townspeople put up with George? the little bastard lives during the 1940’s and still somehow manages to get everyone to love him despite routinely messing with their lives
- there’s two illustration styles throughout the book and while your average kid probably wouldn’t notice, it’s distinct enough that once you see it you can’t un-see it.
- overall though, the stories are great (albeit its highly unrealistic that at least one person hasn’t threatened to call animal control) and the illustrations were something I used to pour over when I was younger so I could try to imitate them
- how tf do the townspeople put up with George? the little bastard lives during the 1940’s and still somehow manages to get everyone to love him despite routinely messing with their lives
- there’s two illustration styles throughout the book and while your average kid probably wouldn’t notice, it’s distinct enough that once you see it you can’t un-see it.
- overall though, the stories are great (albeit its highly unrealistic that at least one person hasn’t threatened to call animal control) and the illustrations were something I used to pour over when I was younger so I could try to imitate them
June 16, 2023
These sweet stories are not actually by Margret and H.A. Rey, but are done in the style and spirit of the original Curious George works.
*Note: one of the stories features a lady dressed up as a witch for a costume party, as well as someone being mistaken for a ghost.
*Note: one of the stories features a lady dressed up as a witch for a costume party, as well as someone being mistaken for a ghost.
November 17, 2021
A cute collection of everyone's favorite monkey, Curious George. The copy I checked out from the library had the stories in English and Spanish, which my niece and nephew enjoyed as well. Our favorites were "Curious George Visits the Library" and "Curious George in the Big City."
March 5, 2014
I never read much Curious George as a kid, although I was definitely familiar with them. My son was introduced to him on PBS Kids. And when I saw this collection of stories, I thought it was important that he be exposed to the original media. This collection, however, is of stories published between 1999 and 2003 and they are not illustrated by the H. A. Rey. Nevertheless, these are delightful stories with rich vibrant illustrations which to my limited knowledge are indistinguishable from the originals. There's so much to look at and learn about and discuss on each page.
August 6, 2017
Let's begin with the master of disaster, the all-too-famous international classic!
Ok, Who could forget Curious George?!
While on a trip to the jungle, a man in a yellow hat discovers and adopts this adorable and curious monkey. By bringing him back to the city, the yellow-hatted man unknowingly sparks some of the craziest and most riotous adventures in world literature. From fireman's hats to circus trapezes, Curious George can't help but get into trouble! And through his lovable antics, every child treasured the love of reading time and again.
Ok, Who could forget Curious George?!
While on a trip to the jungle, a man in a yellow hat discovers and adopts this adorable and curious monkey. By bringing him back to the city, the yellow-hatted man unknowingly sparks some of the craziest and most riotous adventures in world literature. From fireman's hats to circus trapezes, Curious George can't help but get into trouble! And through his lovable antics, every child treasured the love of reading time and again.
August 13, 2007
A George we can love!
June 10, 2016
Fantastic book full of cute and colorful illustrations of everyone's favorite monkey.
April 2, 2016
George was a good little monkey and always very curious!
October 23, 2017
Perfect book for preschool aged kids. Although George does get into some naught things he always does the right thing in the end!
February 12, 2022
This book is amazing! It has some of the best Curious George stories and is absolutely lovely!
July 23, 2020
He lives everything Curious George like his Gramma.
October 28, 2024
A Treasury of Curious George by Margret & H.A. Rey is a collection of 8 stories that include: Curious George Takes a Train, Curious George Visits a Toys Store, Curious George and the Dump Truck, Curious George and the Birthday Surprise, Curious George Goes Camping, Curious George Goes to a Costume Party, Curious George Visits the Library, and Curious George in the Big City. All stories were fun and educational as we watch a little monkey, named George, be curious and get into all kinds of adventure, but if I had to pick one favorite, it would be Curious George and the Dump Truck.
In Curious George and the Dump Truck the story starts out with ducks and ducks are one of my favorite animals. George likes them too and since he had never seen ducks before, he followed them to the park where he found a dump truck. The workers were on their lunch break. George really reminds me of my nephew, Kaison, who doesn’t have a lot of words yet, but he has enough energy and curiosity for 10 children and that can lead to anything, much like the creative situations that George often finds himself in. He doesn’t mean to cause trouble, but messes often happen and there always some fun.
The illustrations in this classic fiction picture book are in the style of H.A. Rey, by Vipah International and Martha Weston and they are heartwarming and fun. George makes any story time fun.
In Curious George and the Dump Truck the story starts out with ducks and ducks are one of my favorite animals. George likes them too and since he had never seen ducks before, he followed them to the park where he found a dump truck. The workers were on their lunch break. George really reminds me of my nephew, Kaison, who doesn’t have a lot of words yet, but he has enough energy and curiosity for 10 children and that can lead to anything, much like the creative situations that George often finds himself in. He doesn’t mean to cause trouble, but messes often happen and there always some fun.
The illustrations in this classic fiction picture book are in the style of H.A. Rey, by Vipah International and Martha Weston and they are heartwarming and fun. George makes any story time fun.
May 7, 2023
Curious George by H.A. Rey and Margret Rey is a classic children's book that has captured the hearts of generations of readers. The story follows the adventures of a curious little monkey named George, who is brought from Africa to live with the Man in the Yellow Hat in the city.
The simple but engaging plot of the book revolves around George's mischievous curiosity and his desire to explore the world around him. The illustrations by H.A. Rey are colorful, whimsical, and full of personality, bringing George and his world to life in a delightful way.
The character of George himself is endearing and relatable, with his innocent curiosity and boundless energy. Children will love following his adventures and learning about the world alongside him. At the same time, the book also teaches important lessons about the consequences of one's actions and the importance of responsibility.
Curious George is a timeless classic that has endured for over 75 years, and for a good reason. Its charming story, lovable characters, and beautiful illustrations make it a joy to read for children and adults alike. It is a perfect book to introduce young readers to the joys of reading and to instill in them a love of learning and exploration.
The simple but engaging plot of the book revolves around George's mischievous curiosity and his desire to explore the world around him. The illustrations by H.A. Rey are colorful, whimsical, and full of personality, bringing George and his world to life in a delightful way.
The character of George himself is endearing and relatable, with his innocent curiosity and boundless energy. Children will love following his adventures and learning about the world alongside him. At the same time, the book also teaches important lessons about the consequences of one's actions and the importance of responsibility.
Curious George is a timeless classic that has endured for over 75 years, and for a good reason. Its charming story, lovable characters, and beautiful illustrations make it a joy to read for children and adults alike. It is a perfect book to introduce young readers to the joys of reading and to instill in them a love of learning and exploration.
October 6, 2023
Parker read this collection of stories on his own with very little help. “It was kind of awesome because he put out a forest fire, he got a gift for his friend and he popped out of the box. It was funny too because a skunk sprayed stickiness all over him. I liked he saved the boy and his toy train at the station. He popped out of nowhere in the ghost costume as well. I like when he popped out of places unexpectedly.”
Cute collection of stories for the classic character and a good addition for a young child’s library.
Cute collection of stories for the classic character and a good addition for a young child’s library.
February 27, 2018
Ozman loves trains and Curious George, and luckily there's both in this collection! There's also birthday, Christmas, and Halloween stories so the kiddies can learn about those holidays. I still love how the George oeuvre never mentions once that the city is New York but it is definitely a character in the last story. Now my question is, does the man in the yellow hat live in Westchester at his farm upstate or does he live in Connecticut? #askingtherealquestions
July 9, 2021
Elliot LOVES Curious George, so he frequently requests this storybook and will listen to several in a row. The storybook includes Curious George Takes A Train, Curious George Visits a Toy Store, Curious George and the Dump Truck, Curious George and the Birthday Surprise, Curious George Goes to a Costume Party, Curious George Visits the Library, and Curious George in the Big City.
* read at 21 months
* read at 21 months
November 14, 2024
This is such a sweet book. It's a complication of several Curious George stories --
Curious George Takes a Train
Curious George Visits a Toy Store
Curious George and the Dump Truck
Curious George and the Birthday Surprise
Curious George Goes Camping
Curious George Goes to a Costume Party
Curious George Visits the Library
Curious George in the Big City
Each story is beautifully illustrated by either Martha Weston or Vipah Interactive
Curious George Takes a Train
Curious George Visits a Toy Store
Curious George and the Dump Truck
Curious George and the Birthday Surprise
Curious George Goes Camping
Curious George Goes to a Costume Party
Curious George Visits the Library
Curious George in the Big City
Each story is beautifully illustrated by either Martha Weston or Vipah Interactive
March 1, 2022
What a fun book!--and to be able to read it in both English and Spanish added to the enjoyment. My library did not have the original Curious George book so I read this book instead---Book #42 from Anita Silvey's 100 book list.
January 21, 2018
My 2.5 year old daughter read the entire book with me in two settings. Thus, 5 stars!
January 28, 2018
This is a great collection of Curious George staples. My son loves it and so do I. Highly recommend.
February 19, 2018
My son makes me read this about once a day.
February 25, 2018
wonderful book.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 20, 2018
My firstborn son wanted to revisit this collection and I'm so glad because I needed a little break from Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
April 29, 2018
My 3 year old's current favorite bedtime book.
Displaying 1 - 30 of 106 reviews