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Curious George New Adventures
Curious George Makes Pancakes Lap Board Book
Every year, George and the man with the yellow hat attend a pancake breakfast to benefit the children’s hospital. Always curious, George finds his way to the pancake table and helps out. After making some of the most interesting pancakes the crowd has ever seen, George gets into even more monkey mischief! Now in a lap board book format!
24 pages, Board Book
First published January 1, 1998
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About the author
H.A. Rey
585 books211 followersHans Augusto Rey was born on September 16, 1898, in Hamburg, Germany. He grew up there near the world-famous Hagenbeck Zoo, and developed a lifelong love for animals and drawing. Margarete Elisabeth Waldstein (who would be known to most of the world as Margret Rey) was also born in Hamburg on May 16, 1906. The two met briefly when Margret was a young girl, before she left Hamburg to study art. They were reunited in 1935 in Rio de Janeiro, where Hans was selling bathtubs as part of a family business and Margret was escaping the political climate in Germany. Margret convinced Hans to leave the family business, and soon they were working together on a variety of projects.
Hans and Margret were married in Brazil on August 16, 1935, and they moved to Paris after falling in love with the city during their European honeymoon. It was there that Hans published his first children’s book, after a French publisher saw his newspaper cartoons of a giraffe and asked him to expand upon them. Raffy and the Nine Monkeys (Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys in the British and American editions) was the result, and it marked the debut of a mischievous monkey named Curious George.
After Raffy and the Nine Monkeys was published, the Reys decided that Curious George deserved a book of his own, so they began work on a manuscript that featured the lovable and exceedingly curious little monkey. But the late 1930s and early ’40s were a tumultuous time in Europe, and before the new manuscript could be published, the Reys—both German Jews—found themselves in a horrible situation. Hitler and his Nazi party were tearing through Europe, and they were poised to take control of Paris.
Knowing that they must escape before the Nazis took power, Hans cobbled together two bicycles out of spare parts. Early in the morning of June 14, 1940, the Reys set off on their bicycles. They brought very little with them on their predawn flight — only warm coats, a bit of food, and five manuscripts, one of which was Curious George. The Nazis entered Paris just hours later, but the Reys were already on their way out. They rode their makeshift bicycles for four long days until reaching the French-Spanish border, where they sold them for train fare to Lisbon. From there they made their way to Brazil and on to New York City, beginning a whole new life as children’s book authors.
Curious George was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1941, and for sixty years these books have been capturing the hearts and minds of readers throughout the world. All the Curious George books, including the seven original stories by Margret and Hans, have sold more than twenty-five million copies. So popular that his original story has never been out of print, George has become one of the most beloved and recognizable characters in children’s literature. His adventures have been translated into many languages, including Japanese, French, Afrikaans, Portuguese, Swedish, German, Chinese, Danish, and Norwegian.
Although both of the Reys have passed away — Hans in 1977 and Margret in 1996—George lives on in the Curious George Foundation. Established in 1989, this foundation funds programs for children that share Curious George’s irresistible qualities—ingenuity, opportunity, determination, and curiosity in learning and exploring. Much consideration is given to programs that benefit animals, through preservation as well as the prevention of cruelty to animals. The foundation supports community outreach programs that emphasize the importance of family, from counseling to peer support groups.
Hans and Margret were married in Brazil on August 16, 1935, and they moved to Paris after falling in love with the city during their European honeymoon. It was there that Hans published his first children’s book, after a French publisher saw his newspaper cartoons of a giraffe and asked him to expand upon them. Raffy and the Nine Monkeys (Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys in the British and American editions) was the result, and it marked the debut of a mischievous monkey named Curious George.
After Raffy and the Nine Monkeys was published, the Reys decided that Curious George deserved a book of his own, so they began work on a manuscript that featured the lovable and exceedingly curious little monkey. But the late 1930s and early ’40s were a tumultuous time in Europe, and before the new manuscript could be published, the Reys—both German Jews—found themselves in a horrible situation. Hitler and his Nazi party were tearing through Europe, and they were poised to take control of Paris.
Knowing that they must escape before the Nazis took power, Hans cobbled together two bicycles out of spare parts. Early in the morning of June 14, 1940, the Reys set off on their bicycles. They brought very little with them on their predawn flight — only warm coats, a bit of food, and five manuscripts, one of which was Curious George. The Nazis entered Paris just hours later, but the Reys were already on their way out. They rode their makeshift bicycles for four long days until reaching the French-Spanish border, where they sold them for train fare to Lisbon. From there they made their way to Brazil and on to New York City, beginning a whole new life as children’s book authors.
Curious George was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1941, and for sixty years these books have been capturing the hearts and minds of readers throughout the world. All the Curious George books, including the seven original stories by Margret and Hans, have sold more than twenty-five million copies. So popular that his original story has never been out of print, George has become one of the most beloved and recognizable characters in children’s literature. His adventures have been translated into many languages, including Japanese, French, Afrikaans, Portuguese, Swedish, German, Chinese, Danish, and Norwegian.
Although both of the Reys have passed away — Hans in 1977 and Margret in 1996—George lives on in the Curious George Foundation. Established in 1989, this foundation funds programs for children that share Curious George’s irresistible qualities—ingenuity, opportunity, determination, and curiosity in learning and exploring. Much consideration is given to programs that benefit animals, through preservation as well as the prevention of cruelty to animals. The foundation supports community outreach programs that emphasize the importance of family, from counseling to peer support groups.
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August 2, 2018
Neo has discovered the wonders of read-along audiobooks, permitting someone else to read the story while he follows along and turns the page when the BEEP sound emerges.
Curious George is excited to attend the annual Pancake Breakfast with his friend, the Man with the Yellow Hat. When they arrive, the smell of pancakes leads George off to wander around. George soon finds the grill and an overworked cook, who is flipping pancakes as fast as he can. When left alone, George takes matters into his own hands, making pancakes and adding some interesting toppings. The event is a success, but George cannot always be sure his help is appreciated. Neo liked this story and loves pancakes. He hopes to be able to make some pancakes of his own soon and discover the wonders of creating cooking.
Curious George is excited to attend the annual Pancake Breakfast with his friend, the Man with the Yellow Hat. When they arrive, the smell of pancakes leads George off to wander around. George soon finds the grill and an overworked cook, who is flipping pancakes as fast as he can. When left alone, George takes matters into his own hands, making pancakes and adding some interesting toppings. The event is a success, but George cannot always be sure his help is appreciated. Neo liked this story and loves pancakes. He hopes to be able to make some pancakes of his own soon and discover the wonders of creating cooking.
May 1, 2024
Curious George goes to a pancake breakfast and tries to help with the pancakes. Kids will like it.
As an adult, all I can think of is that monkeys like to poop on their hands...
As an adult, all I can think of is that monkeys like to poop on their hands...
December 20, 2023
God, kan varmt anbefale
May 6, 2009
perfect for reading after making your toddler some pancakes...
July 6, 2019
I picked this up from a “free” box at a bookstore. And now I want pancakes! I mean, who doesn’t love Curious George?
April 2, 2022
Delightful as all George books :)
February 25, 2025
Give me that monkey's recipe!
March 1, 2024
HOW CUTE!! 🐒💛
May 23, 2021
Esme approved.
March 19, 2015
Curious George Makes Pancakes is a children’s book about an interesting monkey and his owner. Together they go to the annual pancake breakfast fundraiser. The money raised goes to the children’s hospital. George makes blueberry pancakes and the people love them. There is a huge line just for pancakes made by a monkey. George takes the man helping him through the rest of the event. George ends up in the dunk tank and makes so much money he receives the honor of presenting the money to the hospital president.
George is the main character in this children’s book. He is a very curious little monkey, but that sometimes leads to mischief. George doesn't get into trouble on purpose, it just happens. His owner is the man in the yellow hat. They are close with each other and always do everything together.
I would recommend this book to children in second grade or below. It is a quick, easy, and understandable read. The book provides simple entertainment and comedy that younger people will enjoy.
George is the main character in this children’s book. He is a very curious little monkey, but that sometimes leads to mischief. George doesn't get into trouble on purpose, it just happens. His owner is the man in the yellow hat. They are close with each other and always do everything together.
I would recommend this book to children in second grade or below. It is a quick, easy, and understandable read. The book provides simple entertainment and comedy that younger people will enjoy.
January 7, 2016
Plot
This book have a lot of people in it. George is a very Curious monkey and gets in a lot trouble in most of the book. George decided he wanted to cook some pancakes. So he decided to put blueberries on the pancakes when the cook wasn’t looking. George ended up cooking the pancakes and people couldn’t believe it because they had been coming to this event for years and have never seen pancakes like that before.
Nephew's Response
My nephew like the book because the monkey got in a lot of trouble. He also like when the monkey was cooking pancakes.
Setting
It starts in a Park at a pancakes breakfast. George and the man in the yellow hat went there to eat all you can eat pancakes. George is make the pancakes make at the colonel.
Recommendation
I recommend this book to 3 year old kid. They deal with younger problems and it is just like the trouble some younger kids would get in.
Rating
I give four stars because it's not the best book ever, but my nephew really enjoyed it.
This book have a lot of people in it. George is a very Curious monkey and gets in a lot trouble in most of the book. George decided he wanted to cook some pancakes. So he decided to put blueberries on the pancakes when the cook wasn’t looking. George ended up cooking the pancakes and people couldn’t believe it because they had been coming to this event for years and have never seen pancakes like that before.
Nephew's Response
My nephew like the book because the monkey got in a lot of trouble. He also like when the monkey was cooking pancakes.
Setting
It starts in a Park at a pancakes breakfast. George and the man in the yellow hat went there to eat all you can eat pancakes. George is make the pancakes make at the colonel.
Recommendation
I recommend this book to 3 year old kid. They deal with younger problems and it is just like the trouble some younger kids would get in.
Rating
I give four stars because it's not the best book ever, but my nephew really enjoyed it.
March 14, 2012
Since I have always been a Curious George fan, I thought that Curious George Makes Pancakes was a fun read. It tells about a day that Curious George goes to a fundraiser with the man that he stays with. At this fundraiser there is a chef making pancakes. At first, George slips a few blueberries into the man's pancakes. When they become a true hit, George takes over and fixes all of the pancakes. In the end, George being curious makes the fundraiser a huge success and they ask him to come back for the following year. I really enjoyed this book and would recommend the Curious George books to young readers.
October 10, 2009
Curious George does it again! His curiousity is a good thing this time though! The story is full of lots of great opportunities for discussions of new vocabulary (such as fundraiser, charity, mayor, etc). Also, it would be a great opener to a fun activity with pancakes! (Ex: You could do a math activity with measuring by making pancakes as a class or the kids could cut out paper pancakes and use them to do math facts!)
April 19, 2012
This is such a great book. Who doesn't love pancakes! Curious George tried to help out by making pancakes at the Pancake Breakfast in the park. He gets in trouble because monkeys aren't supposed to be cooking. This book shows step by step how to poor the batter and cook pancakes. It would be great for teaching sequencing. In the end the everyone loves Georges blueberry pancakes and the mayor thanks him.
February 12, 2012
We all like the Curious George books. Probably because my little boys remind me of Curious George with all of his inquistiveness and mischief.
We have this book sitting out in the kitchen to make the pancakes that Curious George made in the book. The recipe is on the back.
We found this book at Walmart for $3.00. :)
(Have 2 copies)
We have this book sitting out in the kitchen to make the pancakes that Curious George made in the book. The recipe is on the back.
We found this book at Walmart for $3.00. :)
(Have 2 copies)
May 6, 2008
I once worked with a young autistic boy who was couldn't get enough of Curious George. This one kept him in stitches as George, predictably, created quite a headache at the pancake breakfast.
September 27, 2010
i can't explain it. She never tires of hearing this story.
September 19, 2011
Continued fun adventures of Curious George, as he helps make pancakes at a charity breakfast.
January 4, 2013
a fun read and my kids think its great and always want pancakes the way george makes them :)
June 23, 2021
My granddaughter was in the other room reading this Curious George book and laughing out loud. Funny story and great to hear some laughter. I think this would count as an Audible book!
February 27, 2022
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February 24, 2009
One of our favorite "George" books
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August 24, 2009This book contains an easy breezy recipe in the back, that kids can make with their families!
February 17, 2011
20 months - it's a book about cooking and food... Need I say more of course you liked it!
March 29, 2020
After that lousy kids book about Sam The Minuteman, I sought something happier to heal my rawness. I finally happened upon an old friend, a monkey named Curious George. And this time he's a badass maker of pancakes!!! Whew! Healing of my heart has been achieved!
CG and his yellow hat bestie are at a county Fair to see into fundraising for a children's hospital. The answer: a pancake breakfast bakeoff, and business is as slow as, well, the syrup for those pancakes. Yellow hat tells CG once again (grrrr!) not to cause mischief with his curiousness! But the one rule of these books, with or without the late H A Rey always stays the same: you never tell Curious George no. Monkey hears, monkey does, cos monkey don't always listen to good, but George disobeys out of the goodness of his monkey heart. In seconds flat, his pancakes are flying off the griddle faster than Subway subs did BEFORE the incident involving a certain Jared. Before long, though, cooks gets nasty and chase our monkey boy in the direction of napkins scattered on the ground, so he uses them to at least try to get the sticky syrup and batter off his monkey butt, then he finds a water filled tank and jumps in, hoping the stuff will wash off...and as it turns out, it's a DUNK TANK! Another success story as H A Rey's legacy of Gorgeous George Stories lives on...in monkey-made Bisquick pancakes hot off the griddle, and life still more fun than any funny riddle....thank God, he's our monkey boy!
Four stars
George Grills em good!!!
CG and his yellow hat bestie are at a county Fair to see into fundraising for a children's hospital. The answer: a pancake breakfast bakeoff, and business is as slow as, well, the syrup for those pancakes. Yellow hat tells CG once again (grrrr!) not to cause mischief with his curiousness! But the one rule of these books, with or without the late H A Rey always stays the same: you never tell Curious George no. Monkey hears, monkey does, cos monkey don't always listen to good, but George disobeys out of the goodness of his monkey heart. In seconds flat, his pancakes are flying off the griddle faster than Subway subs did BEFORE the incident involving a certain Jared. Before long, though, cooks gets nasty and chase our monkey boy in the direction of napkins scattered on the ground, so he uses them to at least try to get the sticky syrup and batter off his monkey butt, then he finds a water filled tank and jumps in, hoping the stuff will wash off...and as it turns out, it's a DUNK TANK! Another success story as H A Rey's legacy of Gorgeous George Stories lives on...in monkey-made Bisquick pancakes hot off the griddle, and life still more fun than any funny riddle....thank God, he's our monkey boy!
Four stars
George Grills em good!!!
November 26, 2018
Maybe its just me, but for some reason the curious George books always gave me anxiety wondering what George would do next to Keep the man in the Yellow hat on his feet. It seems like he would learn what kind of things get him in trouble and learn to have a little bit of self control when it comes to curiosity. and also that he's always wondering off alone, but this one is really cute. I do love the simplicity of the books and the stories are always very original. I would say its a great series to buy for a child. The writing is a little too complex for beginners though because the font is pretty small and each page has quite a lot of words on it.
January 7, 2020
A couple of things here. I read to a two and a half. She gets the monkey, but not the strange yellow hat man. Pancakes and blueberries and syrup she gets, and being sticky from syrup. The dunk-tank is a complete mystery at the end though, and the congrats from the Mayor.
There is just a bit too much in this story that does not apply. It is not among her favorites. It is no Butterfly Girl Goes to the Beach, that is for sure. She will listen till the end for some reason, so it gets three stars.
There is just a bit too much in this story that does not apply. It is not among her favorites. It is no Butterfly Girl Goes to the Beach, that is for sure. She will listen till the end for some reason, so it gets three stars.
May 25, 2025
My 2-year-old daughter seems to particularly like this Curious George story.
Every year, there's a pancake breakfast fundraiser to raise money for the children's hospital (the same one introduced in H.A. and Margret Rey's "Curious George Goes to the Hospital"?). Even the mayor shows up (not the same one as that book: I've noticed one other appearance of this later mayor, "Curious George at the Parade"). George gets in trouble for making tastier pancakes than a human cook who feels overworked, then tries to wash syrup off his fur in the dunk tank and entertains everyone.
Every year, there's a pancake breakfast fundraiser to raise money for the children's hospital (the same one introduced in H.A. and Margret Rey's "Curious George Goes to the Hospital"?). Even the mayor shows up (not the same one as that book: I've noticed one other appearance of this later mayor, "Curious George at the Parade"). George gets in trouble for making tastier pancakes than a human cook who feels overworked, then tries to wash syrup off his fur in the dunk tank and entertains everyone.
March 8, 2019
In our classroom, students are learning shapes and can associate the circle with a pancake. We had pancakes for breakfast and used all of our five senses! We saw them, heard them cooking, smelled them, touched them, and best of all tasted them!
This is an excellent book to help create ideas and/spark interest in community service and learning how to bake delicious pancakes! We like when the monkey takes a bath in the dunk tank.
This is an excellent book to help create ideas and/spark interest in community service and learning how to bake delicious pancakes! We like when the monkey takes a bath in the dunk tank.
October 1, 2021
This was so cute. I enjoyed reading it but I'm an adult. This book ended up in the donation pile so not sure if they liked it and just won't read it again because they're "too old" for this book, or because they didn't enjoy the story, but it was still good to me. I feel it would be worth buying for a child. Maybe an adult who likes picture books would also love to own this book. I hope you love this one if you ever plan to read it for yourself.
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