![]() ![]() In 1939, “Raffy and the Nine Monkeys,” a children’s book written and illustrated by Hans, was published in France (an English-language version of the book was titled “Cecily G. The couple married in 1935 then relocated to Paris, France, where Hans was a newspaper cartoonist and Margret wrote advertising copy. In Brazil, she became re-acquainted with Hans Rey (born Hans Reyersbach), a fellow Hamburg native who she had met as a child. She studied art in her homeland then later moved to Rio de Janeiro and worked as a photographer. Margret Rey was born Margarete Waldstein in Hamburg, Germany, in May 1906. The following year, the first “Curious George” book was published in the United States. The Reys, both German Jews, escaped wartime Europe in 1940 and fled to America. On December 21, 1996, Margret Rey, who with her husband Hans created the popular “Curious George” children’s books about a mischievous monkey, dies at age 90 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ![]()
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