Curious George
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As the introduction explains, the watercolor paintings that accompany this special edition of the very first Curious George story made their way out of Paris on the back of Hans Rey's bicycle, as he and his wife, Margaret, narrowly escaped the German occupation. By way of Spain and Brazil, Rey and his work came to the United States, where cash-strapped children's publishers always required "color separation" art--i.e., a different drawing for each color. So Rey's watercolors were not used, and for subsequent books he never even did them; only now, for the first time, has that first set been used directly. Otherwise, it's the story you probably already know, though a bit more luxuriously produced, about how Curious George came to make life a lot more interesting for the Man in the Yellow Hat. (Ages 3 to 8) --Richard Farr |
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A Gnostic Fable???
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Some people have seen in this book echoes of the slave trade or animal exploitation.
But I see in this story, a gnostic fable with echoes of Kabbalism and even Mormonism.
George is in his African Paradise when a mysterious God-like stranger, who is nameless, takes advantage of George's curiosity and kidnaps him away to a much harsher world where his curiousity continues to get him into trouble, thereby enabling him to learn lessons he couldn't learn any other way.
To me this is almost like the myth of the garden of Eden, where Adam and Eve's curiosity impel them to partake of the fruit and thus be exiled into the Lone and Dreary World.
It is a breach of the rules, but a necessary breach of the rules. There is the mystery.
And is the Man in the Yellow Hat God or is he Satan? Is he the Temptor or the Protector???
Or are the Temptor and the Protector both aspects of the same Deity.
These questions, of course, do not concern George. He is too busy exploring the world and having fun.
The rules of the Lone and Dreary World are arbitrary, meaningless and harsh. George gets thrown into jail for accidentally calling the fire department. He is sad for a while but finagles a clever escape.
No matter what happens to him....whether he is seconds away from drowning in the ocean, or about to be eloctrocuted on his high-electric wire walk, or floating high above the city clinging for dear life to a bunch of helium balloons, George never, ever loses his cool, and he always manages to have a good time.
So is curiosity bad? Is breaking the rules bad?
The underlying message of these books is that both of these things are necessary. There would be no story without curiousity. No adventure. No learning. No eternal progression.
George was born to be curious and to encourage others to be curious while making them well aware of the consequences.
And while George is cordial towards the Man in the Yellow Hat, he (like Job in the Bible) keeps his own ways before him, seeks counsel, first of all, in his own heart, which is above all curious, and gathers his wisdom, as we all must, from his own, most curious experiences.
Long Live George, the coolest monkey ever! |
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