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Curious GeorgeCurious George is a character and a book series starring a curious monkey named George brought to the big city by a man with a yellow hat. The series was written and drawn by the husband and wife team of Hans and Margret Rey, starting in 1941. At first only Hans Rey was credited for the work. The Reys produced many other children's books but the Curious George series was the most popular of all. It has been re-edited continuously in the six decades since the first volume came out. The current United States publisher is Houghton Mifflin of Boston. Most curiously of all, George lacks a tail, a characteristic which traditionally seperates monkeys from the great apes. A small handful of scholars believe there is a racist undertone to "Curious George". The book, written in France, tells of a monkey with human-like characteristics, who is brought into civilization. The Man in the Yellow Hat must rescue the helpless monkey as he creates blunders in his new environment. Some see this as a metaphor for the "civilizing" of Africans into European culture.
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