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A favorite of children and adults, Curious George is the name H. A. Rey gave to the fictional monkey taken from the jungle by “a man in a yellow hat.” Poet and journalist Sholem Berger provides a translation of this story into Yiddish as well as a transliteration of the Yiddish for easy reading. The back of the book contains an alphabet chart for Yiddish and a pronunciation key.
A favorite of children and adults, Curious George is the name H. A. Rey gave to the fictional monkey taken from the jungle by “a man in a yellow hat.” Poet and journalist Sholem Berger provides a translation of this story into Yiddish as well as a transliteration of the Yiddish for easy reading. The back of the book contains an alphabet chart for Yiddish and a pronunciation key.