Curious George Takes a Job
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| Author | H. A. Rey Margret Rey |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Curious George |
| Genre | Children's literature |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
Publication date | 1947 |
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| Preceded by | Curious George |
| Followed by | Curious George Rides a Bike |
Curious George Takes a Job is a children's book written and illustrated by Margaret Rey and H. A. Rey and published by Houghton Mifflin in 1947. It is the second of the Curious George books and tells the story of George taking a job as a window washer.
Plot[edit]
The book picks up where the first book ends. George is living in the zoo, until he gets a key from a zookeeper and escapes his cage. In the city, George enters a restaurant where he is caught eating a pot of spaghetti and forced by the cook to wash the dishes, but he does a splendid job. As a reward, the cook takes him to a friend (who is an elevator man), who gives him a job as a window washer at a tall apartment building. The elevator man warns George that he must not get too curious or there may be trouble. While doing his job, George first saw a little boy with his mother in a kitchen. The boy was crying because he didn't want to eat his spinach nor did he like it (for the first room). Then, a man was taking a nap (for the second room). When George listened to the funny snoring noise (made by the sleeping man), he was sorry that the man was not his real friend (The Man with the Yellow Hat). George, one by one, did great on all the windows. All windows of the building that George worked on became one hundred percent clean. But as for the last window in the one building, George (before he could work on the last one) discovers a room being painted. George then thinks painting is better than washing windows. So instead of working on the last window, he (thinking it would be OK to paint) decided to climb inside and paint the room where the painters were in.
So (after he thinks the painters might paint the whole room into an African jungle; with the furniture being made into African animals) he sneaks in and gives it a jungle theme (even painting the furniture covers as animals) during the painters' break for lunch. Upon their return from lunch an hour later, the painters look inside and the room has changed into a jungle (including a giraffe, two leopards, and a zebra). An apartment woman owner of the room (as a customer for the painters) also shows up and gasps about "her lovely room". She did not find her room funny. George turned her room into a jungle. But it was not what the woman ordered nor wanted for her room. George had to do it out of no where. Finally, the painters, the elevator man (who the painters told about what George did to the woman's room which was making it into a jungle), and the apartment woman owner (who also told the elevator man) chase George down a fire escape.
George reaches (hanging from the bars) at the end of the fire escape. When the group (the painters, the elevator man, and the apartment room woman) got close to him at the end, he jumps down (before they can catch him). In a moment, he thought he would be safe. Unfortunately, when George jumps down from the bars at end of the fire escape, he makes a hard landing blow on the stone-like pavement below. And poor little George, he did not know that the pavement was hard as stone and not like the soft grass from the jungle. As a result, when George jumped down, the fall broke his leg, and an ambulance arrived to take him to the hospital. The woman of the apartment reported the incident and told everyone how George got what he deserved. He had what he deserved which was making her apartment room into a jungle. The elevator man adds he knew that George would get into trouble (as he says, "I told you he would get into trouble!") because he was too curious.
As a result, George ends up in the hospital. He is then seen sadly laying in the hospital bed with a cast on his leg. It started out so nicely. If only he had not been so curious he would have had a lot of fun. But now it was too late.
The story of him experiencing the hospital (after falling down and breaking his leg) makes it to the local newspaper where The Man with the Yellow Hat reads it and makes a beeline to the hospital to claim him. During that time, George gets out of his bed (his leg having healed) and tampers with a bottle of ether, which knocks him out. The Man and the nurse both find him this way and put him in a cold shower to wake him up, then George is taken to a movie studio to record a movie about his life, which he and all of his friends (whom he met during the story) are seen in a theater watching at the end of the book.
Reception[edit]
The book has received reviews from publications including School Library Journal,[1] Kirkus Reviews,[2] The New Yorker,[3] and New York Herald Tribune.[4]
References[edit]
- ↑ Mcelmeel, Sharron (April 1983). "Curious George takes a job". School Library Journal. 29 (1): 46.
- ↑ "Curious George Takes a Job". Kirkus Reviews. June 15, 1947. Retrieved April 14, 2019. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Galchen, Rivka (June 3, 2019). "The Unexpected Profundity of Curious George". The New Yorker. Retrieved April 14, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Curious George takes a job". WorldCat. Retrieved April 14, 2020. Unknown parameter
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