![]() ![]() In early September 1939, just after World War II began, the Reys a husband-and-wife team of German Jews living in Paris sought refuge at Château Feuga, an old castle owned by some friends in southern France. ![]() ![]() Reality’s hard knocks the chases, the falls, the breaking of limbs and objects are ultimately taken care of by the nameless man in the yellow hat, who never seems to learn that you don’t leave such a childlike creature alone with a new bike, saying, “Keep close to the house while I am gone.”īut as the exhibition points out, at least outside of the books’ frames, Curious George really did save the day, and more than once. His misadventures, particularly in the early books, are ignited by impulse and inquiry, the consequences of wanting to see and to know, and the books’ charm is that they don’t condemn this curiosity they relish it. He sees a hat, he puts it on his head he sees a seagull and is determined to fly himself he sees a telephone and dials, accidentally summoning the fire department he sees house painters and decides to paint. He was a mischief maker, an innocent, born in the jungle and lured into the strange world of humans. A “good little monkey,” he is called in the classic series of picture books by Margret and H. You don’t really think about Curious George saving the day, as the title of the new exhibition at the Jewish Museum puts it. ![]()
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