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| | Frederica Mathewes-Green on Curious George on National Review Online |
 | | George, the curious little monkey, had a precarious start: his parents, Margaret and H.A. Rey, bicycled out of Paris just hours before the Germans arrived, with the preliminary watercolors and story text in their backpacks. |
 | | The first "Curious George" book appeared in America in 1941 (in England he was called "Zozo," because the monarch was named George. |
 | | And, well, "curious" was a euphemism for "gay.") Since then the books have never been out of print, a rare achievement in the genre, where few survive ten years. |
| www.nationalreview.com /mathewes-green/mathewesgreen200602100932.asp (1377 words) |
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