00000 000 CURIOUS GEORGE by H. A. Rey Text=Dy1:GEORGE.TXT 00000 000 Houghton-Mifflin Company, Boston 1941 DISK=86 00000 000 Transcribed by D.P. Hayes 11 May 1983 00000 000 Entire text PRE-READER by parents to 3-4 year olds 00001 111 This is =George. He lived in Africa. He was a good little 00002 111 monkey and always very curious. One day =George saw a man. He had 00003 111 on a large yellow straw hat. The man saw =George too. What a nice 00004 111 little monkey, he thought. I would like to take him home with 00005 111 me. He put his hat on the ground and, of course, =George was 00006 111 curious. He came down from the tree to look at the large yellow 00007 111 hat. The hat had been on the man's head. =George thought it would be 00008 111 nice to have it on his own head. He picked it up and put it on. 00009 111 The hat covered =George's head. He couldn't see. The man picked 00010 111 him up into a bag. =George was caught. The man with the big yellow 00011 111 hat put =George into a little boat, and a sailor rowed them both 00012 111 across the water to a big ship. =George was sad, but he was still 00013 111 a little curious. On the big ship things began to happen. The man 00014 111 took off the bag. =George sat on a little stool and the man said, 00015 111 =George, I am going to take you to a big zoo in a big city. 00016 111 You will like it there. Now run along and play, but don't get into 00017 111 any trouble. =George promised to be good. But it is easy for little 00018 111 monkeys to forget. On the deck he found some sea gulls. He wondered 00019 111 how they could fly. He was very curious. Finally he had to try. 00020 111 It looked easy. But, oh what happened! First this, and then this! 00021 111 Where is =George? The sailors looked and looked. At last they saw 00022 111 him struggling in the water, and almost all tired out. Man 00023 111 overboard, the sailors cried as they threw him a lifeboat. =George 00024 111 caught it and held on. At last he was safe on board. After that 00025 111 =George was more careful to be a good monkey, until, at last, the 00026 111 long trip was over. =George said good-bye to the kind sailors, and 00027 111 he and the man with the yellow hat walked off the ship on to the 00028 111 shore and on into the city to the man's house. After a good meal 00029 111 and a good pipe =George felt very tired. He crawled into bed and 00030 111 fell asleep at once. The next morning the man telephoned the Zoo. 00031 111 =George watched him. He was fascinated. Then the man went away. 00032 111 =George was curious. He wanted to telephone, too. One, two, three, 00033 111 four, five, six, seven. What fun! =Ding-a-ling-a-ling. =George had 00034 111 called the fire station. The firemen rushed to the telephone. 00035 111 Hello, Hello they said. But there was no answer. Then they 00036 111 looked for a signal on the big map that showed were the telephone 00037 111 call had come from. They didn't know that it was =George. They 00038 111 thought it was a real fire. Hurry, hurry, hurry! The firemen 00039 111 jumped on to the fire engines and on to the hook-and-ladders. 00040 111 Everyone out of the way! Hurry, hurry, hurry! The firemen rushed 00041 111 into the house. They opened the door. No fire! Only a naughty 00042 111 little monkey. Oh, catch him, catch him, they cried. =George 00043 111 tried to run away. He almost did, but he got caught in the telephone 00044 111 wire. A thin fireman caught one arm and a fat fireman caught the 00045 111 other. You fooled the fire department, they said. We will have to 00046 111 shut you up where you can't do any more harm. They took him 00047 111 away and shut him in a prison. =George wanted to get out. He climbed 00048 111 up to the window to try the bars. Just then the watchman came in. 00049 111 He got on the wooden bed to catch =George. But he was too big and 00050 111 heavy. The bed tipped up, the watchman fell over, and quick as 00051 111 lightning, =George ran out through the open door. He hurried 00051 111 through 00052 111 the building and out on to the roof. And then he was lucky to be a 00053 111 monkey: out he walked on to the telephone wires. Quickly and quietly 00054 111 over the guard's head, =walked away. He was free! Down the street 00055 111 outside the prison wall stood a balloon man. A little girl bought a 00056 111 balloon for her brother. George watched. He was curious again. He 00057 111 felt he must have a bright red balloon. He reached over and tried 00058 111 to help himself, but instead of one balloon, the whole bunch broke 00059 111 loose. In an instant the wind whisked them all away and, with 00060 111 them, went =George, holding tight with both hands. Up, up 00061 111 he sailed, higher and higher. The houses looked like toy houses and 00062 111 the people like dolls. =George was frightened. He held on very 00063 111 tight. At first the wind blew in great gusts. Then it quieted. 00064 111 Finally it stopped blowing altogether. =George was very tired. 00065 111 Down down he went, bump, on to the top of a traffic light. Everyone 00066 111 was surprised. The traffic got all mixed up. =George didn't know 00067 111 what to do, and then he heard someone call, =George! He looked down 00068 111 and saw his friend, the man with the big yellow hat. =George was 00069 111 very happy. The man was happy too. =George slid down the post and 00070 111 the man with the big yellow hat put him under his arm, then paid 00071 111 the balloon man for all his balloons. And then =George and the man 00072 111 climbed into the car and at last, away they went, to the zoo! What 00073 111 a nice place place for =George to live! 00074 000 CURIOUS GEORGE LEARNS THE ALPHABET same author/publ. 1963 00075 111 This is =George. He lived with his friend, the man with the 00076 111 yellow hat. He was a good little monkey, but he was always 00077 111 curious. 00078 111 This morning =George was looking at some of his friends books. 00079 111 They were full of little black marks and dots and lines, and =George 00080 111 was curious: what could one do with them? The man with the yellow 00081 111 hat came just in time. You don't tear a book apart to find out 00082 111 what's in it, he said. You read it, =George. Books are full of 00083 111 stories. Stories are made of words, and words are made of letters. 00084 111 If you want to read a story you first have to know the letters of 00085 111 the alphabet. Let me show you. The man took a big pad and began to 00086 111 draw. =George was curious. This is an =+A, the man said. The =A 00087 111 is the first letter of the alphabet. Now we add four feet and a 00088 111 long tail and the =A becomes an alligator with his mouth wide 00089 111 open. The word alligator starts with an =A. This is a big =A. 00090 111 There is also a small =a. All letters come in big and in 00091 111 small.