Talk:Curious George (book)

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 26 January 2021 and 15 May 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Spkarp.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 18:51, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

Collaboration article
This article has been selected as the collaboration article for WikiProject Children's literature. Please discuss any improvements here. strdst_grl  (call me Stardust) 16:57, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Suggestions
Please post any suggestions for improvement here, and cross them off once achieved:
 * Expand the plot summary. strdst_grl   (call me Stardust) 16:57, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Include some reliable sources. strdst_grl   (call me Stardust) 16:57, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Create a section on adaptations. strdst_grl   (call me Stardust) 16:57, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
 * We could have a brief "Origins/History" Section, a brief "About the Authors" section, a "Critical Acclaim" section - perhaps, if we can find any.

Useful sources
(I know we can't use the blog reviews but I've included them in this list for background)
 * History of the series page from Houghton Mifflin
 * New York Times review of "The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H. A. Rey" (Houghton Mifflin)
 * Huffington Post review of the Curious George exhibition
 * CG referenced in academic book
 * Ditto
 * Blog review of the exhibition
 * Ditto
 * Jewish Museum Exhibition
 * NYT review of the exhibition
 * video tour of the exhibition
 * Virtual Exhibit at the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection

question and link to pdf
Question: early in the book, george enters the office of the man with the hat, and on the desk is a telephone and two other items. Does anyone have any idea what those two other items are ?? they look like some sort of game.

Second, here is a link to a full text pdf: I assume this book is out of copyrigh http://www.vidyaonline.org/dl/curiousgeorge.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.91.51.31 (talk) 02:15, 2 January 2012 (UTC)


 * I have a copy of the book....hmmm I'm not sure, but I would guess maybe a pen on a chain and a stamp?? Jakob 21:20, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Rating
I'm not sure, but this article may deserve a Start rating?? --Jakob 20:40, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Some Proposed Changes
I am planning on making some edits and revisions to this page in the coming days. First, I plan to add a new Reception section. I have found a few sources with some reviews and analysis of this book. I believe that with the great legacy this book has, this article should discuss the public's reaction to this book, and I hope my new Reception section can do that. I am also planning on editing the plot section. Currently, the plot has every little detail in the book, and I don't think this is necessary for a Wikipedia article. My proposed changes to this section will eliminate unnecessary information, and hopefully create a more balanced article. Finally, I will revise the Lead section to include the new reception section, and tie the whole article together. If you are curious as to my sources, you can check out my annotated bibliography on the Wikipedia dashboard sandbox. Hope this is helpful! --Spkarp (talk) 20:52, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

Persistent reversion of changes to plot section
Back on the fourth of September I made a bunch of changes to the plot section to clean up grammatically incorrect/unnecessary text and the improve the clarity of various points of the plot. This was basically just a refactor; I did not add anything new to the plot.

The next day, seemingly two separate IP users come and revert all of my changes. Because of the rather unconstructive nature of those edits, I reverted them. Some time later, another different IP comes along and makes some partial reverts, adding some typographical errors; I clean it up without reverting it. The next day, a different IP comes along and instead of reverting what I had added, they added text from the version before I came along on top of what I had already written; I reverted it because it contained the same grammar and had contributed redundant text. A couple days later, another IP comes along and silently reverts everything that had been done up to that point, going back to this version:. The final revised version of mine was this one:.

I am posting this here hoping that whoever is editing the page, for some reason, back to a state that I believe to be poorer will come forward and state their case. Until then, I am abandoning this article. PolyversialMind (talk) 19:57, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

New major changes to the Curious George (book) article
I am posting after making some revisions and additions to this article, including revamping the Background, Plot, and About the authors sections while adding a new Analysis section. The user above me posted about how they have made persistent efforts to change the Plot section riddled with grammatical errors but kept having their changed reverted by someone, so it's my hope that my changes are revised and added to(as it may be too short for many people) but not reverted back to its original state. The analysis section includes new and up to date scholarly analysis from two authors and scholars of children's literature. Hope these changes are beneficial! Mk2109 (talk) 21:19, 8 May 2022 (UTC)