Lilia is a huge fan of Curious George. We read from The Complete Adventures of Curious George
several times a week (each story is quite long, but you can start practically on any page and it still makes sense). One day last year, a little George doll showed up on our door step. Along with Sunny the Fox and Bobby Bear, little George is one of her very best stuffed animal friends. She serves tea to Mom and Dad with her Curious George Tin Tea Set
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Two weeks ago, we checked out a Curious George DVD
from the library, and I do believe we will have to actually purchase it. I was so happy to see that the DVD also included the complete Frog and Toad stories, which are my absolute favorites (I had both books pre-Lilia). Frog and Toad and George are “puppets”– filmed with a stop motion technique. My favorites are the Frog and Toad stories (particularly the one where Toad recites William Blake to his garden), and Lil enjoys both George and Frog and Toad. It’s a much better adaptation than the cartoon on PBS– which includes the disclaimer, “George is a monkey, so he can do things we can’t do”. (Why does everything have to have a warning?)
I was excited when I heard that George would be making an appearance at the Penn Bookstore last week! As I suspected, Lilia was a little scared of the “Big Monkey” but she still posed for this picture with Daddy and George.
