Curious George Storybook Collection (CGTV)

I bought this for my 3 and 6 year old, who love the PBS series, Curious George. I have several Curious George books, but this one is the best: 8 stories, beautifully illustrated inside of a hardcover. There are even some follow-up activities at the end of each story, if you are so inclined. Each story is 5-10 minutes long, so perfect for bedtime.

This is a great volume for Curious George lovers ages 2-6! This collection contains books based on the Curious George TV show on PBS, and the pictures have the same "cartoon" style (as opposed to the original series of books by H.A. Rey and the later series of books based on that). Both my two- and four-year old love all things Curious George! They love finding familiar characters in the volume -- Hundley, Charkie, Jumpy Squirrel, etc. These books are fairly quick reads, and like the TV show, they deliver some STEM concepts without hitting kids over the head. For example, in The Donut Delivery, Curious George learns what happens when you add 0 onto another number, and accidentally orders 100 dozen donuts instead of 1 dozen. My four year old loves science and I have really enjoyed watching Curious George pique his interest. He especially loves stories like Snowy Day where George engineers a solution to a problem with found objects. I've loved watching him go around the house collecting things so he can recreate George's inventions -- it's so great to get a kid his age excited about engineering without even realizing that he's learning.

I like many of the original H.A. Rey Curious George books (particularly Curious George Goes to the Hospital and Curious George Takes a Job), but I sometimes hear parents my age express a bit of shock when they first read the original Curious George story (George is taken from the jungle against his well, smokes a pipe, gets put in jail, etc). I find the ever ubiquitous series of books based on the originals (such as Curious Goes to the Dentist, Curious George and the Dump Truck, etc) to be really formulaic and George can be more mischievous than curious. This is the one franchise where I actually prefer to read my kids the books based on the TV show! George is genuinely curious, learns about science, solves problems, etc...and the books are a little quicker and less predictable. Thumbs up from the parents and the kids here!

This book is not written in the usual Curious George style. It was been watered down and made to look cheap. There are not as many illustrations to accompany the many interesting details to the stories that are usually in Curious George books. The details of the stories themselves have been changed, for example, the part with the Mini Golf story: the original story shows that George sets up his own mini golf circuit with Betsy but this has been omitted and made to look like her brother Steve is working with George. If you want a quality Curious George book get "A Treasury of Curious George" by Margret and H.A Rey. I neglected to look inside the book, not realizing that because publishers know the name Curious George sells, the quality of the stories produced aren't a priority.

My son absolutely loves Curious George. He is 2 1/2 and this is one of only a few shows he will sit and intently watch. I had yet to purchase any Curious George books for him so I came straight to Amazon to see what was available.

After perusing a bit, I came across this book. 8 books in one definitely caught my eye. I read some reviews then made my purchase. My son and I couldn't be happier. The stories are all adaptations of episodes from the PBS series with fun activities at the end. My son absolutely loves the activities. And what child doesn't love stickers?!

The illustrations are beautiful as well. There are 197 pages in this book, not including the 4 pages of stickers. This was a well thought out and well designed book. The pages themselves are nice and thick, not flimsy like so many other books.

I highly recommend this book. It is a wonderful addition to any child's library. You won't be sorry you made this purchase.

There are 8 Curious George stories in this book and 100 stickers in the back. It has abbreviated stories and large colorful pictures in the TV/DVD graphics style. My grandson loves Curious George and wants to read the stories over and over again. Whenever he sees one of the stories in this book on TV he likes following along with the book.

A hundred stickers is a lot for a 3-4 year old. If your child goes crazy with stickers, it is possible to cut out the pages of stickers in the back of the book and give them out a few at a time.

My daughter loves Curious George so I thought this book would be a big hit. And it is... it's great quality and the stickers are nice. But it's a pretty big heavy book with smooth slippery pages, so harder for her to manipulate

We got this for our daughter for her second birthday. She loves the pictures and the stories (of which there are a lot).

I got a great deal on it, and it was well worth the money.

My two year old grandson loved it so much. It was a Christmas gift and he especially loved the stickers, and parents said the stickers were not the kind that stick to everything "forever". When I ordered it I missed the fact that it had stickers and am not a fan of stickers stuck on everything in the house, but apparently these were not a problem in that way. He loved the stories too, of course!

This book is based on the TV series, and goes over the episodes like a storyline, which is not bad in itself, but does not anything new for a CG fanatic.

It is also way too heavy for a 2,5y old to hold, and makes it so much easier to tear out the pages. I think a very serious kid, that treats books with respect they deserve will do good with it, but my boys either drop this thing on their toes, or joyfully tear the pages out shouting: oh oh! Charkie!

Not a good but. I'd prefer a bunch of single story books, this one will become a CG paper chain by Christmas.

My kids absolutely love Curious George! So when I saw this book I knew they would love it. When I read it I found the stories were lacking. It didn't have a good flow to it, I found myself getting lost when I turned the page because the story would jump without any explanation as to how we got to that part.

I did however, enjoy the updated pictures and the activity's at the end of each story.