Celebrate Curious George

Join us this Saturday for a Curious George-themed storytime! We will read Curious George stories, play games, and do coloring sheets. It starts at 10 a.m., and please sign up if you are interested. At the library, we want everyone to be curious!

I was re-reading the original Curious George story the other day to prepare for the program, and I noticed one thing that really showed how old the story is. It was published in 1941, and I could really tell because on one page, it says, "After a good meal and a good pipe, George was very tired." There is a picture of George sitting in an armchair and smoking a pipe, looking very content. I'm sure that this was originally meant to be amusing--monkeys can't smoke pipes! How silly!--but of course, with everything we know today about the consequences of tobacco use, you would never see this in a contemporary children's book. However, with classic stories like this, you run into this kind of thing from time to time.