BookAges 6–7
Curious George
Margret and H. A. Rey · 1941
American
The Reys' small monkey and the Man with the Yellow Hat. The original 1941 book and the half-dozen the Reys wrote themselves. The small format and the gentle line drawings have lasted; the framing has not aged as well.
A note to parents
The opening — a hunter captures George in Africa and brings him to the city — reads differently to a contemporary parent than to a 1941 one. Worth reading aloud and talking about, rather than handing over solo.
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