(excerpted from 'Pauses: Autobiographical Reflections of 101 Creators of Children's Books,' by Lee Bennett Hopkins) Publishers Weekly, Feb 20, 1995, volume 242 n8 p131(2).

'I thought you were monkeys too,' said a little boy who had been eager to meet us, disappointment was written all over his face.' - From the article, 'Times of Their Lives: Nine Authors and Illustrators Look Back on Significant Chapters from Their Illustrious Careers. Among children, we seem to be known as the parents of Curious George. We did not know a single publisher, but before the week was over we had found a home for Curious George at Houghton Mifflin. We took a small apartment in New York's Greenwich Village, rolled up our sleeves, and were ready to start from scratch. After a brief interlude in Rio de Janeiro, our migrations came to an end one clear, crisp October morning in 1940, when we saw the Statue of Liberty rise above the harbor of New York, and we landed in the U.S.A. We finally made it to Lisbon, by train, having sold our bicycles to customs officials at the French-Spanish border. 'In June 1940, on a rainy morning before dawn, a few hours before the Nazis, entered, we left Paris on bicycles, with nothing but warm coats and our manuscripts-Curious George among them-tied to the baggage racks, and started pedaling south. Here Margret tells in her own words how Curious George came to America: Somehow, funny and delightful Curious George was created during those difficult times.

They came back to Paris during some of its cruelest days, just before the Nazi occupation. A.) Rey, and together they started the first advertising agency in Rio de Janeiro. Margret married a fellow German artist, Hans Augusto (H. She studied art at the famous Bauhaus School and elsewhere before moving to Brazil in 1935. Margret was born in Hamburg, Germany, on May 16, 1906. Rey, had no children themselves, but thousands of kids across the world have made friends with their little monkey, Curious George. How Curious George’s creators saved the beloved monkey from the Nazis, opens a new window

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