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Curious George's First Day of School (Read-Aloud) Kindle Edition with Audio/Video
George is excited to start his first day of school! There are so many new lessons for a curious little monkey to learn....
It’s the first day of school, and George has been invited to Mr. Apple’s class to be a special helper. George is just the right monkey for the job—that is, until he starts to make his usual mischief.
A mixture of red and yellow paint makes orange . . . a mixture of yellow and blue makes green . . . and a mixture of all the paint colors makes a big mess! After a speedy adventure up and down the halls of the school, George and Mr. Apple clean up the classroom—with a little help from George’s new friends.
Your little monkey will enjoy giggling at George's back-to-school mischief, as well as the satisfying happy ending.
This ebook contains audio narration.
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade levelPreschool - 3
- Lexile measureAD470L
- PublisherClarion Books
- Publication dateAugust 15, 2014
- ISBN-13978-0618605644
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About the Author
H. A. Rey and his wife, Margret, first introduced the world to the bighearted, fun-loving, mischievous hero Curious George in 1941, and young readers have been in love with him ever since. Curious George has been successfully adapted into a major motion picture and an Emmy-winning television show on PBS, and Pretzel and the Puppies, based on their picture books, is a streaming series on Apple TV+. curiousgeorge.com; pretzelandthepuppies.com
Product details
- ASIN : B00MLF36OY
- Publisher : Clarion Books; 1st edition (August 15, 2014)
- Publication date : August 15, 2014
- Language : English
- File size : 21351 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Enhanced typesetting : Not Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Sticky notes : Not Enabled
- Print length : 29 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 0618605649
- Best Sellers Rank: #682,617 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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About the authors
Hans Augusto Rey was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1898. As a child, he spent much of his free time in that city's famous Hagenbeck Zoo drawing animals. After serving in the army during World War I, he studied philology and natural science at the University of Hamburg. He then married Margret Rey and they moved to Montmartre for four years. The manuscript for the first Curious George books was one of the few items the Reys carried with them on their bicycles when they escaped from Paris in 1940. Eventually, they made their way to the United States, and Curious George was published in 1941. Curious George has been published in many languages, including French, German, Japanese, Afrikaans, and Norwegian. Additional Curious George books followed, as well as such other favorites as CECILY G. AND THE NINE MONKEYS and FIND THE CONSTELLATIONS.
Margarete Elisabeth Waldstein (who would be known to most of the world as Margret Rey) was born in Hamburg on May 16, 1906. Her future husband, Hans Augusto Rey, was born on September 16, 1898, in Hamburg, Germany. He grew up there near the world-famous Hagenbeck Zoo, and developed a lifelong love for animals and drawing. The two met briefly when Margret was a young girl, before she left Hamburg to study art. They were reunited in 1935 in Rio de Janeiro, where Hans was selling bathtubs as part of a family business and Margret was escaping the political climate in Germany. Margret convinced Hans to leave the family business, and soon they were working together on a variety of projects.
Hans and Margret were married in Brazil on August 16, 1935, and they moved to Paris after falling in love with the city during their European honeymoon. It was there that Hans published his first children's book, after a French publisher saw his newspaper cartoons of a giraffe and asked him to expand upon them. Raffy and the Nine Monkeys (Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys in the British and American editions) was the result, and it marked the debut of a mischievous monkey named Curious George.
After Raffy and the Nine Monkeys was published, the Reys decided that Curious George deserved a book of his own, so they began work on a manuscript that featured the lovable and exceedingly curious little monkey. But the late 1930s and early '40s were a tumultuous time in Europe, and before the new manuscript could be published, the Reys--both German Jews--found themselves in a horrible situation. Hitler and his Nazi party were tearing through Europe, and they were poised to take control of Paris.
Knowing that they must escape before the Nazis took power, Hans cobbled together two bicycles out of spare parts. Early in the morning of June 14, 1940, the Reys set off on their bicycles. They brought very little with them on their predawn flight -- only warm coats, a bit of food, and five manuscripts, one of which was Curious George. The Nazis entered Paris just hours later, but the Reys were already on their way out. They rode their makeshift bicycles for four long days until reaching the French-Spanish border, where they sold them for train fare to Lisbon. From there they made their way to Brazil and on to New York City, beginning a whole new life as children's book authors.
Curious George was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1941, and for sixty years these books have been capturing the hearts and minds of readers throughout the world. All the Curious George books, including the seven original stories by Margret and Hans, have sold more than twenty-five million copies. So popular that his original story has never been out of print, George has become one of the most beloved and recognizable characters in children's literature. His adventures have been translated into many languages, including Japanese, French, Afrikaans, Portuguese, Swedish, German, Chinese, Danish, and Norwegian.
Although both of the Reys have passed away -- Hans in 1977 and Margret in 1996--George lives on in the Curious George Foundation. Established in 1989, this foundation funds programs for children that share Curious George's irresistible qualities--ingenuity, opportunity, determination, and curiosity in learning and exploring. Much consideration is given to programs that benefit animals, through preservation as well as the prevention of cruelty to animals. The foundation supports community outreach programs that emphasize the importance of family, from counseling to peer support groups.
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Take a quick read! Read it to a child -- only takes 5 to 20 minutes. It'll be some of the best time you have ever spent.
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序盤の赤と青を混ぜて紫、赤と黄色でオレンジ、青と黄色で緑、を子どもたちに答えさせながら読むと心を掴めます。ちなみに全部混ぜると…?のところは、黒!rainbow!などの意見が出ました→実際にはa mess!なのですが。
読み終わった後「どうしてジョージを子どもたちは手伝ったの?」という質問が出て、自然な形で「共感する気持ち(ジョージが悲しいからみんなも悲しい気持ちに)」「協力すること(ジョージを助けてあげよう、みんなで掃除すると早く終わる)」などを子どもたちが自分から学びとることができたように思います。とても良い本でした。英語も難しいものはないので分かりやすいと思います。
Great book for preschoolers. I brought this book to my son’s class as a mystery reader and it was a great hit. We could learn “empathy” and “cooperation” from the book - kids feel sad because George was feeling terrible. They decided to help George to clean the classroom together and the mess is all clean quickly! I could see everyone enjoyed the book and connected what they learn as a good behavior to this book.
insomma: consigliato assolutamente come primo step nell'insegnamento dell'inglese a bambini da i 3 anni in su