Margret & H.A. Rey's Curious George and the hot air balloon

H. A. Rey, 1898-1977

Book - 1998

While visiting Mount Rushmore, Curious George gets into mischief when he takes an unplanned ride on a hot air balloon.

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Subjects
Genres
Picture books
Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin 1998.
Language
English
Corporate Author
Vipah Interactive
Main Author
H. A. Rey, 1898-1977 (-)
Corporate Author
Vipah Interactive (-)
Other Authors
Margret Rey (-)
Physical Description
24 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm
ISBN
9781451717976
9781599614120
9780395923382
9780395919095
Contents unavailable.
Review by School Library Journal Review

PreS-Gr 1-These two books take a familiar, favorite character and create an imitation of his curiosity, but without the Reys' usual spark and attention to detail. In Hot Air Balloon, George is playing with an anchor rope and the balloon takes off with him aboard. It blows quite close to the nose of George Washington at Mt. Rushmore where the monkey unwittingly rescues a worker and becomes a hero. He is rewarded with a helicopter ride around the monument. When Curious George Goes to a Movie, the man with the yellow hat leaves to get popcorn and George goes up to the projection booth where he startles the projectionist, who knocks the reels off the projector. While he untangles the film, George does shadow figures to amuse the audience and again becomes a hero. Both books read like anemic summaries of the original Curious George adventures, but with the lessons eliminated. It is disconcerting that this George never receives so much as a mention of the follies of his curiosity, but is immediately rewarded for a chance good deed, which happens as part of the cover-up for his naughtiness. Both the blandness and the mixed messages make these titles bad advertising for the real Curious George.-Nancy A. Gifford, Schenectady County Public Library, NY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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