Editing Curious George (section)

==History==

=== Creation ===
The original series was written by the husband-and-wife team of [[H.A. Rey|Hans Augusto (H. A.) Rey]] and [[Margret Rey]]. The Jewish couple fled Paris in June 1940, on bicycles they had made themselves, carrying the ''Curious George'' manuscript with them.<ref name="Boston.com News, A Curious Tale of Georges Creators">{{cite news | url=https://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2005/09/17/a_curious_tale_of_georges_creators/ | title=Boston.com News, By Mark Feeney Globe Staff | access-date=2007-10-29 | work=The Boston Globe | date=September 17, 2005}}</ref><ref name="New York Times, How Curious George Escaped The Nazis">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/13/books/13geor.html?_r=1&oref=slogin/ | title=How Curious George Escaped the Nazis
| author=Dinitia Smith | access-date=2007-10-29 | work=The New York Times | date=September 13, 2005 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150529181608/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/13/books/how-curious-george-escaped-the-nazis.html | archivedate=29 May 2015}}</ref> They received visas in [[Bayonne]], under instructions from Aristides [[Aristides de Sousa Mendes|Sousa Mendes]], the Portuguese consul in Bordeaux, which enabled them to escape France via Portugal.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Visa Recipients |url=https://sousamendesfoundation.org/family/rey}}</ref> At first, only H. A. Rey was credited for the work in order to distinguish the Reys' books from the large number of children's books written by female authors. The first seven books were illustrated by H.A. Rey.<ref>Marcus, Leonard S. "Introduction" in ''The Complete Curious George''. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001.</ref> Later, [[Alan Shalleck|Alan J. Shalleck]] was credited as an editor and Hans Rey and Margret Rey for the writing and illustrating. The Reys produced many other children's books, but the ''Curious George'' series was the most popular. Each book has been in continuous print since it was first published.

=== Literature ===
[[Image:WhiteHouseCuriousGeorge2003.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The [[White House]] 2003 [[Christmas]] decoration using Curious George as the theme with the [[Barbara Bush]] portrait.]]
Margret and H. A. Rey released seven ''Curious George'' books during H. A. Rey's lifetime. Recently, more ''Curious George'' books have been released by [[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt]] including board books with scenes from the original books, books adapted from the 1980s telefilm series, and new adventures.

===Original adventures===
''[[Curious George (book)|Curious George]]'' appeared in 1941. This book begins with George living in Africa and tells the story of his capture by the Man with the Yellow Hat, who takes him on a ship to "the big city" where he will live in a [[zoo]]. The second book, ''[[Curious George Takes a Job]]'' (1947), begins with George living in the zoo, from which he escapes and has several adventures before the Man with the Yellow Hat finds him and takes George to live at his house. The remaining five stories describe George's adventures while living at the house of the Man with the Yellow Hat. Although the Man with the Yellow Hat is unnamed in both the original books and telefilm books, he receives his name in the [[Curious George (TV series)|Curious George]] TV series and is known as "Theodore Shackleford".

Sometimes dubbed the "Original Adventures", these original seven titles are completely by the series creators, Margret & H. A. Rey.

* ''[[Curious George (book)|Curious George]]'' (1941)
* ''[[Curious George Takes a Job]]'' (1947)
* ''[[Curious George Rides a Bike]]'' (1952)
* ''[[Curious George Gets a Medal]]'' (1957)
* ''[[Curious George Flies a Kite]]'' (1958)
* ''[[Curious George Learns the Alphabet]]'' (1963)
* ''[[Curious George Goes to the Hospital]]'' (1966)

Before appearing in his own series, Curious George appeared as a character in another children's book written and illustrated by H. A. Rey, ''[[Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys]]'' (1939).

===Books adapted from telefilms===
A second series of books, based on the [[#Other media|telefilm]] series, was edited by Margret & H.A. Rey and [[Alan Shalleck|Alan J. Shalleck]]. These appeared between 1984 and 1993. They are mostly out of print, though several have been re-released with new cover art as part of the next series, the "New Adventures".

=== "New Adventures" ===
A third series of books, the Curious George "New Adventures", began to appear in 1998, and continues to the present. These books are "illustrated in the style of H. A. Rey" by a variety of credited and uncredited artists including Mary O'Keefe Young, Martha Weston, Anna Grossnickle Hines, Michael Alan Jensen, and Vipah Interactive.{{Citation needed|date = January 2016}}

=== "The Man with the Yellow Hat" ===
[[Image:Yellow Hat (Curious George).jpg|thumb|right|The Man in the Yellow Hat.]]
Aside from George himself, the only recurring character in the original adventures is the Man with the yellow Hat who is George's best friend and caretaker. The Man often facilitates George's adventures by taking him somewhere, and even more often resolves the tension by intervening just in time to get George out of a tight spot. He is always seen wearing a bright yellow [[Suit (clothing)|suit]] and a wide brimmed yellow [[hat]]. The Man is never mentioned by name in the original adventures or in any subsequent content over more than six decades.

He is always referred to as "The Man" or fully "The Man with the Yellow Hat" (abbreviated "TMWTYH"), but aside from those two names, he is unnamed in the original series and telefilm books. When people speak to George about the Man, they often refer to him as "Your friend". In H. A. Rey's book ''See the Circus'', published in 1946, "The Man with the Yellow Hat" was referred to as "Ted". Later, in ''[[Curious George (film)|Curious George]]'' (2006), the Man, who is voiced by [[Will Ferrell]], is also referred to as "Ted" throughout the film; his last name is revealed as being "Shacklefield" in a deleted scene. In the [[Curious George (TV series)|TV series]], he is voiced by [[Jeff Bennett]].