The Boat Show (Curious George Early Reader Series)

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Overview

When his friend Bill asks George to mind his model boat, George accidentally sinks the boat right before a model boat competition.
Experimenting with the buoyancy of his toys, though, George is able to construct another boat that floats. Level one in Houghton’s new reader line means that text is minimal and simple, perfect for readers learning to sound out words and looking at art for visual clues.
Activities include making a paper boat and experimenting with buoyancy.

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Based on the well-known characters created by Margret and H.A. Rey, this book is a companion to the television series teleplay by Raye Lankford. Curious George and his friend, the man in the yellow hat, are off to the lake to watch the boat contest. George is thrilled to see so many different kinds of boats. George promises to keep Bill's boat safe until the contest begins, but he cannot resist the opportunity of filling Bill's boats with toy cars, just like the ferry boats he saw along the river. When he sets Bill's boat off to sail, George is horrified when it sinks. He tries to make a new boat for Bill out of his toys, but that sinks too. George then figures out which of his toys float. He watches the other boats sailing on the lake. He creates a new boat for Bill based on his observations. Along with the story of George's adventure, the text contains simple instructions on how to make a paper boat and a "float or sink" experiment. Reviewer: Carol Ann Lloyd-Stanger

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780618891962
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date: 5/19/2008
Edition description: None
Pages: 24
Sales rank: 309,168
Age range: 3 - 5 Years
Lexile: 380L (what's this?)
Series: Curious George Early Reader Series
Product dimensions: 5.70 (w) x 8.80 (h) x 0.20 (d)

Meet the Author

H. A. and Margret Rey

The Reys were born in Hamburg, Germany. Hans Augusto Rey (1898-1977) met his wife-to-be, Margret (1906-1996), at a party in her father's home in Germany; when he first caught a glimpse of her, she was sliding down the banister. In their twenties and thirties they lived in Paris and in Rio de Janeiro, where Hans sold bathtubs in villages along the Amazon River. Eventually Cambridge, Massachusetts, became the Reys' home and community. Throughout their lives the Reys created many lively books together, including SPOTTY, PRETZEL, and lift-the-flap books such as HOW DO YOU GET THERE? The manuscript of 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. Their incorrigible little monkey has become an American icon, selling millions of books and capturing the hearts of readers everywhere. 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.

Biography

In their nearly 40-year-long professional collaboration, the husband-and-wife team of Margret and H. A. Rey created one of the most memorable figures in 20th-century children’s literature: Curious George, the little monkey with an insatiable appetite for adventure.

The Reys, like George, had tremendous zest for travel and new experience. Both were born in Germany, H. A. (Hans Augusto) in 1898, and Margret (Margarete Elisabeth Waldstein) in 1906. Although the two became acquainted in their homeland, they fell in love after each moved to Rio de Janeiro, where they married in 1935. Their honeymoon led them to Paris, where Hans published his first book for children, Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys, introducing Curious George as a peripheral character.

In 1940 the Reys, both of whom were Jewish, fled Paris as the Nazis mounted their invasion of the city, making their way by bicycle to Spain, by train to Lisbon, then to Brazil, New York City, and finally Cambridge, Massachusetts, where they made their home. The few belongings they carried with them from Europe included the manuscript of Curious George, which Houghton Mifflin published in 1941. Together they created six more classic Curious George adventures: Curious George Flies a Kite, Curious George Gets a Medal, Curious George Learns the Alphabet, Curious George Goes to the Hospital, Curious George Rides a Bike, and Curious George Takes a Job.

Like Babar, Bambi, Pippi Longstocking, and countless other children’s book characters, George is, for all purposes, an orphan, one who was separated from his family. (He was kidnapped, in fact, by The Man with the Yellow Hat, who has gained his own degree of fame through the series.) Admonished to stay home and be good, George invariably lets his curiosity get the better of him and winds up in some kind of trouble every time: in jail, on a runaway cow, kidnapped by circus promoters, or in the hospital. In a possible nod to the Reys’s own hair-raising escape from the Nazis, every story involves an antic chase scene. And every story ends in a happy reunion with the man with the yellow hat, who is George’s trainer, keeper, teacher, disciplinarian, and parental figure.

According to their publisher, the Reys were not just a writer/designer team. Although Hans was primarily focused on ideas and illustrations, and Margret on writing, their work often overlapped. The result was pure magic. The Curious George books transcend time and space, driven by a sincere understanding of the forces that propel children: curiosity, resourcefulness, and love of home.

Good To Know

H. A. Rey also independently produced a series of astronomy books (including Find the Constellations), and Margret wrote Pretzel, about a dachshund, and Spotty, about a rabbit, with H. A. Rey’s illustrations. They lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts until their deaths, H. A. Rey’s in 1977 and Margret Rey’s in 1996.

Margret's name does not appear on some of the earlier Curious George collaborations because, she said, "When we first came to America our publisher suggested we use my husband's name because the children's book field was so dominated by women. They thought it would sell better. After a time I thought 'why the devil did I do that?' So since then my name has appeared also."

1. Also Known As:
  
  Hans Augusto Rey and Margarete Elisabeth Waldstein (full names)
1. Place of Death:
  
  Cambridge, Massachusetts; Margret died in 1996, H.A. in 1977
1. Website:
  
  http://www.curiousgeorge.com

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Posted January 8, 2011

Story is good, but the format is bad

My four year old son and I are big fans of Curious George books, so I purchased this for him. When it was downloaded it said four pages, but there's more with extra wording and pages. The format is not like a regular book and it makes it very difficult to read. Like the short story, but not the way it displays on NookColor.

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I thought it was good

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Format is Terrible

The formatting of this book on the NookColor is terrible. One page is fine, then the next page will be a repeat of the previous page with no picture.
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