![]() ![]() George (touching the dinosaur) uses himself as a model. A family comes into the dinosaur exhibit to also see the dinosaurs. Suddenly, he is hungry because he has missed lunch. ![]() ![]() Then, he caught sight of a palm tree that had nut-like fruit growing on it (nuts possibly coconuts). The two dinosaurs are a mother Stegosaurus and a baby Stegosaurus. George inadvertently makes another mess in the science museum with a dinosaur exhibit (with life-sized model/ animatronic dinosaurs). He is chased by the farmer but eludes him by hiding in a shirt on a clothes line and then jumping into a pickup truck headed for the museum (which turns out to be a science museum). George makes a mess with ink and a fountain pen and tries to wash it away with the garden hose, but the room fills with water (flooding the room) and he rushes to a nearby farm to get a portable pump and get rid of the flood with it. ![]() The story was published only weeks before the Soviets launched Sputnik II and Rey wanted to share his interests in space travel with children. It is the fourth book in the original Curious George series, and tells the story of George's flight into space. Rey and published by Houghton Mifflin in 1957. Curious George Gets a Medal is a children's book written and illustrated by Margret Rey and H. ![]()
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