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Houghton Mifflin (1957), Edition: Book Club, 47 pages
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Following a day of misadventures Curious George becomes the first space monkey.
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LibraryThing member JDHensley
Curious George is a monkey who always causes trouble because of his ideas and curiousity. In this story George has a simple idea to write a letter and ends up causing one problem after another. He is known as a smart monkey and ends up being the first space monkey. He is recognized by everyone as a
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hero. Students will be entertained by the messes Curious George gets into. They can also learn how not thinking through a decision can cause worse problems. Show Less
LibraryThing member caitsm
Curious George goes on another adventure and gets himself into so much trouble! When the man with the yellow hat is gone, he gets a letter, but can't read it. He decides he wants to try and write a letter but makes a huge mess! He wants to help clean it up, but causes even more of a disaster.
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George keeps getting into trouble as the day goes on and to make up for his silly disturbances, he volunteers to fly into space. What a great monkey and what a great book! Show Less
LibraryThing member allawishus
I liked this one a lot better than the first Curious George! This is more of how I think of Curious George - he gets curious about something (in this case, a letter addressed to him), he tries to solve a problem (get ink into a pen in order to write a letter), which causes numerous other problems
His adventures usually stem from imitation - he's seen the man with the yellow hat do something, and he wants to do it too; but he gets something wrong - in this case ink spills everywhere which he tries to clean up. I think kids relate to Curious George because they like to solve problems by imitation as well. And they see and understand why things go wrong, which is self-motivating and reinforcing in a way (like, "I'm not stupid enough to do THAT! I get why it's funny, ha ha!").
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(floods The Man with the Yellow Hat's house/apartment, sets a farmer's pigs free, etc. etc). Ultimately he goes on a completely unrelated adventure (goes to space at the behest of a museum director, lololol). A lot happens in these 48 pages! His adventures usually stem from imitation - he's seen the man with the yellow hat do something, and he wants to do it too; but he gets something wrong - in this case ink spills everywhere which he tries to clean up. I think kids relate to Curious George because they like to solve problems by imitation as well. And they see and understand why things go wrong, which is self-motivating and reinforcing in a way (like, "I'm not stupid enough to do THAT! I get why it's funny, ha ha!").
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1957
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0590757717 / 9780590757713