Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Curious George's Abcs
Margret Rey · 2011
78/100
👍 Worth It
The clever trick of building each letter's shape into the illustration is genuinely inventive for an alphabet book, and the hidden-George element gives it replay value that most ABCs lack. It is a condensed board-book adaptation of the fuller 1963 original, so it trades depth for accessibility, but for toddlers and early readers it hits exactly what it needs to. A solid pick for any young child's bookshelf.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety100
substance72
craft80
originality78
accuracy85
hype75
age-fit95
human-eye80
Penny’s verdict78
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