Curious George Visits the Library

George and the man with the yellow hat take a trip to the library arriving right during story hour. George sees a dinosaur book on the table that the librarian plans to read, but each time she picks up a different story to read. George becomes inpatient and sneaks over to take the book about dinosaurs, and then discovers books on planes, trucks, cranes, boats, kites, and baking cakes. He finds so many books that he can't carry them all until he finds a rolling cart which works great. But this cart gets George into trouble because as you know, he is a very curious monkey.

The Curious George stories illustrate modern fantasy for the young elementary students since most people do not own and take their monkey everywhere with them. The idea show more would be interesting though. show less

George takes a trip to the library, initially he wanted a book about dinosaurs, but he started to wander around looking at all the books to borrow-- and he and I seem to have something in common! he wanted to read pretty much everything he saw! Hahaha

Cute! Part of this story hit home with me! When I'm on a children's book kick (like now!), I go through the children's section picking an armload of books off the shelves too. Hmmm, my very own booktruck at the public library? I'll have to look into that! :D

George is going to Storytime
Smaller book, with lots of the usual mayhem
Good for Library or Storytime theme

In this Curious George adventure George visits the Library. George goes to story time and he sees a dinosaur book. George wants the storyteller to read the book about dinosaurs, but she doesn't. So George takes it. Just when the storyteller is about to read it she sees that the dinosaur book is gone. George starts looking at books he sees a book about trucks, elephants, boats, planes, cakes, and kites. He finds a cart full of books and thought it was a shelf, but i was a cart of books. The cart rolls off. George and the kids from storytime help put away the books and George gets his very own library card. George only checks out 3 books from the library.

This book is a good example of modern fantasy because it is about a monkey who is a pet to the man in the yellow hat and who does things that a child would do such as go to story time at the library and want to read a lot of books. It also talks about the mischief he gets in when he grabs too many books and tries to leave without checking them out.
Media: watercolor and charcoal pencil

Age Appropriateness: Elementary
This book is a fantasy book. The events that occur could happen in real life, however it is fantasy because Curious George (the monkey) is personified.
Plot: The plot in the book is about Curious George going to the library. He ends up looking for books that he likes and makes a mess, then helps clean them up. The plot is good because it contains conflict and resolution. This plot can be seen as person to person, in which the Curious George has an encounter with a library volunteer.
Media: Color pencil/ water color