The first adventure in this highly popular series tells how the little monkey Curious George, caught in the jungle and brought back to the city by a man in a yellow hat, can't help being interested in all the new things around him. Though well meaning, George's curiosity always gets him into trouble. Young readers can easily relate, and Rey's cheerful illustrations celebrate Curious George's innocence.

George the curious monkey borrows a bike, delivers newspapers, joins a circus, saves a bear from a tree, goes home a hero.

Curious George comes to America: Join the Man with the Yellow Hat as he meets George in the jungle and decides to bring him to the city. George doesn't mean any harm, but his shipboard antics soon get him into trouble. Curious George goes to the hospital: That silly monkey's curiosity leads him on another adventure when he swallows a puzzle piece. Rushed to the emergency room, George soon forgets his fears as he learns how hospitals help people feel...

When they go to the city to see the sights, Curious George becomes separated from his friends.

En este libro ilustrado para niños, Jorge, un monito curioso, se escapa del jardín zoológico y busca trabajo en la ciudad. Lava platos y limpia las ventanas de rascacielos, pero también se mete en lo que no debe. The monkey Curious George escapes from the zoo and looks for work in the city. He washes dishes and cleans the windows of skyscrapers but also gets into things that he shouldn't.

Mientras que en un viaje de campo a una estación de bomberos con la clase de la señora Gray, George curioso sale por su cuenta y es muy pronto en la escena de un incendio, donde se encuentra la manera de ser útil. While on a field trip to a fire station with Mrs. Gray's class, Curious George goes off on his own and is soon at the scene of a fire, where he finds a way to be helpful.

Curious George just wants to help out; his willingness to help gets him into trouble and then into space.

Curious George tries several occupations.

George and his friend Steve eat all of the honeycomb Betsy was going to use for her report on bees, so they build a beehive to make more.

Curious George is excited to ride the subway to the zoo. He gets separated from his friend, the man with the yellow hat.