For an online kids program, I did an author study for H.A. Rey. He was SO interesting and this is what I found...
The most exciting discovery in my research for H.A. Rey was this:
This was such an exciting find! And I definitely think this is H.A. Rey, drawn into his book.
H.A. Rey was very artistic as a young boy. He loved drawing and painting. One of his favorite places to go was the Hagenbeck Zoo. The zoo was near his home in Germany and he would often go for visits with his brother and 2 sisters.
He loved observing the animals - the way they moved, the way they ate, climbed trees or played with each other. Afterwards, he would go home and draw what he saw.
As an adult, for a time, he had a job designing posters for the local circus.
But of all the original seven Curious George books, what made me grab this one?
I had JUST finished reading this book about how the couple escaped Paris on bicycles.
Both H.A. and Margaret were German-born Jews living in Paris in 1940. They decided to flee the city but had no car and the trains had stopped running, so the couple bought bicycles to make their way to safety!
This was an amazing chapter book biography and I would highly recommend reading it or purchasing it for your library.
This program was posted onto the library's Youtube channel and can be seen here
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