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The Curious George series has sold 10,000 times the initial print run. H. A. & Margaret Rey Papers, de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection / McCain Library and Archives /
H. A. Rey (born Hans Augusto Reyersbach; September 16, 1898 – August 26, 1977) was a German-born American illustrator and author, known best for the series of children's picture books that he and his wife Margret Rey created about Curious George.
Jul 11, 2018 · Teven today, some 70 years later, the world would be a bleaker place if the Reys and their manuscript had not escaped the Nazis by the narrowest of margins. After this look at H.A. Rey and Curious George, read up on the little-known story of Theodor Geisel a.k.a. Dr. Seuss.
- William Delong
Jun 3, 2019 · June 3, 2019. The backstory of Margret and Hans Rey, the couple who created Curious George—fleeing Paris as the Nazis invaded—casts the dream logic of the stories in a new light. Photograph by ...
The suspenseful tale of how the Reys—German Jews who had been living and working in Paris when the Germans invaded in 1940—escaped from Europe and made their way to the United States was the subject of an exhibit this winter at the Rey Center in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire, funded by the New Hampshire Humanities Council.
Sep 13, 2005 · A new book, "The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey" (Houghton Mifflin), tells of how George's creators, both German-born Jews, fled from Paris by...
Aug 12, 2017 · New documentary to detail daring escape of Jewish authors Margret and H. A. Rey, who fled Europe in 1940 on homemade bicycles carrying their unpublished manuscripts. By Gabe Friedman 12 August ...
