![]() From there they returned to Brazil, where they had met five years earlier, but this time they continued to New York, New York. The Reys' odyssey brought them to the Spanish border, where they bought train tickets to Lisbon. Among the meager possessions they brought with them was the illustrated manuscript of Curious George. Hans built two bicycles, and they fled Paris just a few hours before it fell. As Jews, the Reys decided to flee Paris before the Nazis seized the city. Their work was interrupted with the outbreak of World War II. ![]() The result, Rafi and the Nine Monkeys, is little remembered today, but one of its characters, an adorably impish monkey named Curious George, was such a success that the couple considered writing a book just about him. While in Paris, Hans's animal drawings came to the attention of French publisher, who commissioned him to write a children's book. They married in 1935 and moved to Paris, France that same year. While there, she met her future husband Hans (who was a salesman and also from Germany). ![]() Rey), the co-author and illustrator of children's books, best known for their Curious GeorgeĪlthough she was born in Germany, she fled to Brazil early in her life to escape Nazism. Margret Elizabeth Rey (– December 21, 1996), born Margarete Elisabeth Waldstein, was (with her husband H. ![]()
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