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{{Short description|1957 book by H. A. Rey}}
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| name = Curious George Gets a Medal
| name = Curious George Gets a Medal
| image = File:CuriousGeorgeGetsAMedal.jpg
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| image_caption = First edition
| caption = First edition
| author = [[H. A. Rey]]<br>[[Margret Rey]]
| author = [[H. A. Rey]]<br>[[Margret Rey]]
| country = United States
| country = United States
| language = English
| language = English
| series = [[Curious George]]
| series = ''[[Curious George]]''
| genre = [[Children's literature]]
| genre = [[Children's literature]]
| publisher = [[Houghton Mifflin]]
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'''''Curious George Gets a Medal''''' is a children's book written and illustrated by [[Margret Rey]] and [[H. A. Rey]] and published by [[Houghton Mifflin]] in [[1957 in literature|1957]]. It is the fourth book in the original [[Curious George]] series, and tells the story of George's flight into space. The story was published only weeks before the Soviets launched ''[[Sputnik II]]'' and Rey wanted to share his interests in space travel with children.<ref>Rey 2001, unpaged Introduction</ref>
'''''Curious George Gets a Medal''''' is a George book written and illustrated by [[Margret Rey]] and [[H. A. Rey]] and published by [[Houghton Mifflin]] in [[1957 in literature|1957]]. It is the fourth book in the original ''[[Curious George]]'' series, and tells the story of George's flight into space. The story was published only weeks before the Soviets launched ''[[Sputnik II]]'' and Rey wanted to share his interests in space travel with children.<ref>Rey 2001, unpaged Introduction</ref>


== Plot ==
==Plot==
George makes a mess with ink and a fountain pen and tries to wash it away with the garden hose, but the room fills with water (flooding the room) and he rushes to a nearby farm to get a portable pump and get rid of the flood with it. He is chased by the farmer but eludes him by hiding in a shirt on a clothes line and then jumping into a pickup truck headed for the [[museum]] (which turns out to be a science museum). George inadvertently makes another mess in the science museum with a dinosaur exhibit (with life-sized model/[[animatronic]] dinosaurs). The two dinosaurs are a mother [[Stegosaurus]] and a baby [[Stegosaurus]]. Then, he caught sight of a [[palm tree]] that had nut-like fruit growing on it (nuts; possibly [[coconut]]s). George loves nuts. Suddenly, he is hungry because he has missed lunch. A family comes into the dinosaur exhibit to also see the dinosaurs. George (touching the dinosaur) uses himself as a model. The family (who saw George touching the dinosaur) thinks George is another stuffed animal (or model animal) by looking at his pose on the dinosaur. That is, or in other words: "they think it's a model monkey with a model dinosaur".
George is reading a book (the picture shows that the book he reads is ''[[Curious George Takes a Job]]'') when Mr. Miller, the mailman, brings a letter for George. George cannot read the letter, so he tries to write one of his own. He makes a mess with ink and a fountain pen and tries to wash it away with the garden hose, but the room floods and he rushes to a nearby farm to get a portable pump and get rid of the flood with it. But the pump is too heavy, so he tries to get it towed by a goat but is hurled away. He then tries to let one [[pig]] out of the pig pen but before he knows it all the pigs burst out of the pen. He manages to get the cow but is chased by the farmer. He eludes him by hiding in a shirt on a clothesline and then jumping into a pickup truck headed for a science [[museum]]. The dinosaur exhibit (with life-sized model/[[animatronic]] dinosaurs) consists of a mother [[Stegosaurus]] and a baby [[Stegosaurus]], along with a [[palm tree]] that had nut-like fruit (possibly [[coconut]]s) growing on it.


After a family finishes looking at the dinosaurs, this buys George some time to pick the nuts, only to cause the entire dinosaur exhibit along with George to fall down.
After the family is gone, George (not really a model but a real monkey) is happy when the people were gone. So now, he could pick the nuts (the "coconuts") and eat them. He climbs onto the mother dinosaur's head and starts to pull. But when he tries to pick the nuts, the nuts do not come off (as he did not know that the nuts are a model and not real like the rest of the displays in the other exhibits). Thinking they are real, he pulls harder and harder, and then the tree begins to sway. With a big crash, the tree falls down onto the mother dinosaur's head. The mother and baby dinosaurs fall down and down comes George.


The guards of the science museum become surprised and then they catch George as they find him underneath the fallen dinosaurs. The museum guards then report about the incident to the museum owner, Professor Wiseman. Professor Wiseman, is terribly angry and surprised. Angry and surprised, he proceeds that the museum guards (after they have caught George) should "lock the naughty monkey this instant and send him back to the zoo". The Man with the Yellow Hat stops the guards with a letter from the mailman to show them. The letter says that Professor Wiseman wants him to go up in a space ship and then bail out. George agrees and is given a tiny space suit. At the critical moment, it is uncertain whether George will jump or not, but he does and the experiment is a success. George is carried to Earth by a parachute and is awarded a medal.
The guards of the science museum become surprised and then they catch George as they find him underneath the fallen dinosaurs. The museum guards then report about the incident to the museum owner Professor Wiseman, who proceeds to make the museum guards (after they have caught George) "lock the naughty monkey this instant and send him back to the zoo". The Man with the Yellow Hat stops the guards with the letter that Mr. Miller had brought. The letter says that Professor Wiseman wants him to go up in a space ship and then bail out. George agrees and is given a tiny space suit. At the critical moment, it is uncertain whether George will jump or not, but he does and the experiment is a success. George is carried to Earth by a parachute and is awarded a medal for him being the first space monkey.


== Notes ==
==See also==
⚫
* [[Ham (chimpanzee)|Ham]], a chimpanzee who became the first [[great ape]] in space in a similar mission in January, 1961.
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{{reflist}}
* [[Project Excelsior]], an Air Force program where Captain [[Joseph Kittinger]] made record-setting parachute jumps from a stratospheric balloon gondola in 1959–1960.
* [[Project Manhigh]], an Air Force program lifting human subjects into the stratosphere by balloon inside an enclosed gondola for aeromedical studies and first-person observations and photography of the edge of space, 1957–1958.


== See also ==
==Notes==
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{{reflist}}
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*[[Ham the Chimp]], the chimpanzee who became the first [[higher primate]] in space in a similar mission in 1961.


== References ==
==References==
* {{Cite book |authors=Rey, H. A. and Margaret Rey |year=2001 |title=The Complete Adventures of Curious George |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |isbn=978-0-547-39100-7}}
* {{Cite book |author1=Rey, H. A. |author2=Margaret Rey |year=2001 |title=The Complete Adventures of Curious George |url=https://archive.org/details/completeadventur00reym |url-access=registration |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |isbn=978-0-547-39100-7}}


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Latest revision as of 02:37, 10 October 2024

Curious George Gets a Medal
First edition
AuthorH. A. Rey
Margret Rey
LanguageEnglish
SeriesCurious George
GenreChildren's literature
PublisherHoughton Mifflin
Publication date
1957
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
Preceded byCurious George Rides a Bike 
Followed byCurious George Flies a Kite 

Curious George Gets a Medal is a George book written and illustrated by Margret Rey and H. A. Rey and published by Houghton Mifflin in 1957. It is the fourth book in the original Curious George series, and tells the story of George's flight into space. The story was published only weeks before the Soviets launched Sputnik II and Rey wanted to share his interests in space travel with children.[1]

Plot

[edit]

George is reading a book (the picture shows that the book he reads is Curious George Takes a Job) when Mr. Miller, the mailman, brings a letter for George. George cannot read the letter, so he tries to write one of his own. He makes a mess with ink and a fountain pen and tries to wash it away with the garden hose, but the room floods and he rushes to a nearby farm to get a portable pump and get rid of the flood with it. But the pump is too heavy, so he tries to get it towed by a goat but is hurled away. He then tries to let one pig out of the pig pen but before he knows it all the pigs burst out of the pen. He manages to get the cow but is chased by the farmer. He eludes him by hiding in a shirt on a clothesline and then jumping into a pickup truck headed for a science museum. The dinosaur exhibit (with life-sized model/animatronic dinosaurs) consists of a mother Stegosaurus and a baby Stegosaurus, along with a palm tree that had nut-like fruit (possibly coconuts) growing on it.

After a family finishes looking at the dinosaurs, this buys George some time to pick the nuts, only to cause the entire dinosaur exhibit along with George to fall down.

The guards of the science museum become surprised and then they catch George as they find him underneath the fallen dinosaurs. The museum guards then report about the incident to the museum owner Professor Wiseman, who proceeds to make the museum guards (after they have caught George) "lock the naughty monkey this instant and send him back to the zoo". The Man with the Yellow Hat stops the guards with the letter that Mr. Miller had brought. The letter says that Professor Wiseman wants him to go up in a space ship and then bail out. George agrees and is given a tiny space suit. At the critical moment, it is uncertain whether George will jump or not, but he does and the experiment is a success. George is carried to Earth by a parachute and is awarded a medal for him being the first space monkey.

See also

[edit]
  • Ham, a chimpanzee who became the first great ape in space in a similar mission in January, 1961.
  • Project Excelsior, an Air Force program where Captain Joseph Kittinger made record-setting parachute jumps from a stratospheric balloon gondola in 1959–1960.
  • Project Manhigh, an Air Force program lifting human subjects into the stratosphere by balloon inside an enclosed gondola for aeromedical studies and first-person observations and photography of the edge of space, 1957–1958.

Notes

[edit]
  1. ^ Rey 2001, unpaged Introduction

References

[edit]
  • Rey, H. A.; Margaret Rey (2001). The Complete Adventures of Curious George. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-547-39100-7.
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