The source of the exhibition is a 2005 children’s book by Louise Borden and illustrated by Allan Drummond entitled The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H. The exhibit now heads to Naples, Florida, and then travels to Wichita, Kansas. 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. Rey, and the monkey would be renamed Curious George. Nearly a year later, after a harrowing wartime escape and journey to the United States, the couple would become known as Margret and H.A. But when Hans Rey pulled out a manuscript for a children’s book entitled The Adventures of Fifi, about a mischievous and curious monkey who was always getting into trouble, the official smiled and passed them by.
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