Curious George books (skip)
There are so many fun Curious George stories, that it doesn’t hurt to skip a few here and there when the story has enough behaviors or situations that have to be discussed or explained at length to a little one. This post covers the handful of books we’d skip (at the time we originally wrote this there is only one story we’ve encountered).
Curious George (1941): This is the first book in the series and it has a lot of behavior I don’t like my little one seeing. George and the man in the yellow hat both smoke cigars, and considering most little ones think of George as a kid, this is a bit concerning. George is basically kidnapped in a bag and later put in a prison. He also crawls on power lines and one of the police officers is described as “fat”. Overall, the story just didn’t feel right based on the kidnapping in Africa and taking the monkey from his home against his will.
