Curious George Goes to the Hospital
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| Author |
H. A. Rey Margret Rey |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Curious George |
| Genre | Children's literature |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
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1966 |
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| Preceded by | Curious George Learns the Alphabet |
Curious George Goes to the Hospital is a children's book written and illustrated by Margret Rey and H. A. Rey and published by Houghton Mifflin in 1966. It is the seventh and final book in the original Curious George series, and tells the story of George's experiences in a hospital after swallowing a jigsaw puzzle piece. The book was written to ease the way for hospital-bound children.
George wakes up one day to find a box on the table. Upon opening it, he pulls out a colorful jigsaw puzzle piece, in which he thinks it was a piece of candy and reluctantly eats the puzzle piece. Later, The Man with the Yellow Hat comes home and sees that George opened the puzzle and they both work on it. Unfortunately, one piece was missing, and they tried to find it, but give up for the night and head to bed. The next morning, George was too sick to eat breakfast, so The Man calls a doctor who, upon examining him, recommends he go to the hospital.
Upon arrival at the hospital, they run into a mother and her young daughter, Betsy, who was frowning because this was her first time in a hospital and she was scared. A nurse named Carol takes George and The Man back, gives George a barium drink, then puts him on the x-ray table. The x-rays come back showing the puzzle piece still in George's stomach, undigested. George is then admitted to the hospital overnight, and is taken to the children's ward, where he is given a shot to put him to sleep and is wheeled into surgery.
When he wakes up, he is groggy and isn't even interested in the good news that the piece is out of him or of the book The Man has, and goes back to sleep.
When George is all better the next morning, he has some ice cream, and is taken to the play room, where several children, including a still-frowning Betsy, was. George meets another kid in a wheelchair with a broken leg who is going to try to walk later with the cast still on. At this point, George starts doing things that end up starting to break Betsy out of her funk. First, using all four limbs, he puts on a puppet show for the kids, which gets her to smile a bit. Next, he finds a record player, stands on the turntable part, turns it on, and spins around faster and faster, until he is flung off and luckily lands on a large pillow to cushion his landing. The kids laugh at it, and Betsy smiled again, until the nurse picks him up and takes him to a spot to nap it off.
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