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Curious about Christmas a touch-and-feel book

This festive touch-and-feel board book lets little ones explore and enjoy all that the holiday has to offer through the curious eyes of everyone? s favorite little monkey. Your baby can experience Christmas with Curious George as he hangs stockings, decorates the tree, awaits a visit from Santa, and...

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Main Authors: Pala, Anjali (Author), Rey, H. A. 1898-1977 (Author), Rey, Margret (Author)
Other Authors: Paprocki, Greg (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Boston : Harcourt Mifflin Harcourt Pub.
Series: Curious baby Curious George
Subjects:
Curious George > (Fictitious character) > Juvenile fiction.
Christmas > Juvenile fiction.
Monkeys. > Juvenile fiction.
Christmas fiction > Juvenile.
Toy and movable books.
Board books.
Summary: This festive touch-and-feel board book lets little ones explore and enjoy all that the holiday has to offer through the curious eyes of everyone? s favorite little monkey. Your baby can experience Christmas with Curious George as he hangs stockings, decorates the tree, awaits a visit from Santa, and finds a surprise present on Christmas morning. With sweet illustrations, simple rhyming verse, and an array of textures--which include velvet stockings, crumbly sugar cookies, soft reindeer fur, and Santa? s fluffy white beard, among others--this holiday book is the perfect gift for those eagerly awaiting a visit from you know who!--Amazon.
George hangs stockings, decorates the tree, awaits a visit from Santa, and finds a surprise present on Christmas morning, in a book with rhyming verse.
Item Description: Cover title.
Based on the Curious George books by H.A. & Margret Rey.
"Conforms to ASTM standards."
Physical Description: 1 volumes (unpaged) : colored illustrations ; 19 cm.
Audience: Ages birth and up.
ISBN: 9780547588414
0547588410
Author Notes: Hans Augusto Rey was born on September 16, 1898 in Hamburg, Germany. He escaped to Paris with his wife after the Nazi's invaded. 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 books were published by Houghton Mifflin in 1941. 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. Their title Happy Halloween made The New York Times Best Seller List in 2013. At first, Margret's name was left off the cover 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.

H. A. Rey died in 1977 and in 1989 Margaret Rey established the Curious George Foundation to help creative children and prevent cruelty to animals.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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