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]
George is reading a book (the picture shows that the book he's reading 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 alsoedit
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.
Rey, H. A.; Margaret Rey (2001). The Complete Adventures of Curious George. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN978-0-547-39100-7.
January 01, 1970
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