Unfortunately, that’s the end of the book. Maybe he was not such a good helper after all.” But the children all liked George, and pitched in to help clean up the mess. A janitor chases him, and George spills water onto the classroom floor - right in front of the school’s principal. “And at recess George made sure everyone had a ball,” the text explains - as an illustration shows George tossing 10 different balls to the children.īut soon George has made a mess with the paints, and he ventures off on his own to find a bucket and mop. (You’d think after all these years, he would’ve learned not to leave the monkey alone!) George is a “special helper” for the children, holding books up at story time and letting the children practice counting on his toes. “You have a big day ahead of you,” says the man with the yellow hat before he drops George off at school. It’s the everyday life of a monkey in the city - and you know he’s going to get into mischief… Rey.” The drawings seem a little generic, but the formula is the same. Houghton Mifflin wrote new adventures, saying they were illustrated “in the style of H.A. It was 64 years after the first “Curious George” book - and 28 years after their author had died - that the monkey had his first day at school.
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