H. A. Rey
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H. A. Rey 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.
Rey reading to children in the early 1970s
Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys is a 1939 children's short story written and illustrated by German-American author H. A. Rey. It is the first story to feature Rey's now-famous character, Curious George
H. A. Rey
…While in Paris, Rey's animal drawings came to the attention of a French publisher, who commissioned him to write a children's book. The characters in Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys included an impish monkey named Curious George, and the couple then decided to write a book focused entirely on him. The outbreak of World War II…
First edition