At 5:30 on the morning of June 12, they rode out of Paris with a monkey hidden in the basket. The husband bought every spare part he could find and built two bikes from scratch. There wasn’t a car or a bicycle left in the city. Among them a young couple, German Jews who had been living in Paris for just four years. Parisians fled by the hundreds of thousands before the Germans captured their city on June 14. On May 10, 1940, Adolf Hitler sent three million troops through the Low Countries into France. He may be the most human character in postwar literature.Īnd he arrived with nothing, a refugee, to became a worldwide sensation-the ultimate American story, one worth remembering on the 75th anniversary of the publication of Curious George and with an upcoming documentary about his irrepressible creators. Well-meaning and disastrous, impulsive and forgetful, selfish and ingenious and in constant need of forgiveness. Practical, unflappable, loving, forgiving, patient-the Man in the Yellow Hat is who we would all like to be.
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