Curious George Visits the Library

Critique: This is a good example of a fantasy because of how George is a monkey and he is checking out books.
Genre: Fantasy

This book is a good example of modern fantasy because it is about a monkey who is a pet to the man in the yellow hat and who does things that a child would do such as go to story time at the library and want to read a lot of books. It also talks about the mischief he gets in when he grabs too many

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books and tries to leave without checking them out.
Media: watercolor and charcoal pencil

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Curious George arrives at the library just in time for story hour. But it isn?t easy for a little monkey to sit still too long. From selecting books to getting his own library card, George's day at the library makes reading fun.

All curious george books remind me of being a kid again because I read them so often. This particular curious george book was about him going to the library and getting excited about reading. He picked up so manybooks that he had to use a cart. After making a mess by crashing the cart, George only

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picked a few books and they happily left the library.

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George and the man with the yellow hat take a trip to the library arriving right during story hour. George sees a dinosaur book on the table that the librarian plans to read, but each time she picks up a different story to read. George becomes inpatient and sneaks over to take the book about

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dinosaurs, and then discovers books on planes, trucks, cranes, boats, kites, and baking cakes. He finds so many books that he can't carry them all until he finds a rolling cart which works great. But this cart gets George into trouble because as you know, he is a very curious monkey.

The Curious George stories illustrate modern fantasy for the young elementary students since most people do not own and take their monkey everywhere with them. The idea would be interesting though.

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This time, George goes to the library with his friend, the man in the yellow hat. While listening to story time, George gets impatient and he then gets a bit out of control with the library's book cart.

Not well received, picture too small?

Cute! Part of this story hit home with me! When I'm on a children's book kick (like now!), I go through the children's section picking an armload of books off the shelves too. Hmmm, my very own booktruck at the public library? I'll have to look into that! :D