![]() ![]() ![]() Curious George was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1941. From Lisbon, they made their way to Brazil and on to New York City, where they began a whole new life as children's book authors. Before the new manuscript could be published, the Reys, both German Jews, found themselves being forced to flee the Nazi occupation. After Raffy and the Nine Monkeys was published, the Reys began a book of Curious George's own. Raffy and the Nine Monkeys was the result, and the debuted the mischievous monkey named Curious George. It was there that Hans published his first children's book, after a French publisher saw his newspaper cartoons of a giraffe and asked him to expand upon them. Hans and Margret were married in Brazil on August 16, 1935, but they soon moved to Paris. Margret convinced Hans to leave the family business, and soon they were working together on a variety of projects. ![]() They were reunited in 1935 in Rio de Janeiro, where Rey had gone to escape the political climate in Germany. Rey, when she was a young girl, but then left for Hamburg to study art. Margarete Elisabeth Waldstein was born in Hamburg on May 16, 1906. ![]()
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