Curious George Goes to the Zoo by Cynthia Platt & Mary O'Keefe Young is a children's picture book in the very popular eponymous classic series (
Wikipedia), but is actually one of the recently-written "New Adventures" and not the vintage originals, and thus cover-credited as by the original creators Margret (
Wikipedia) & H.A. Rey (
Wikipedia) while being interior-acknowledged as being done "in the style of", free courtesy of publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
This is the featured Free eBook of the Week in the iTunes Canada store (and I'm pleased to see that Apple is still continuing the regular weekly freebies in addition to their iOS-promoting "
Get started with great free books" selection, rather than having been replaced by them as I'd thought when they seemed to skip last week), and is also available as a supplementary freebie in several other iTunes stores worldwide.
Currently free @
iTunes (available to Canadians and selected other countries) &
Amazon UK (may also drop in the
main store later, but as this is a price-match to a one-off special rather than a regular multi-store publisher promo, there's no guarantee).
The iTunes version comes with Read-Aloud audio and thus has specific device/app requirements, please see the product page for details.
And this has been the selected 3rd (non-repeat) free ebook thread of the day.
Enjoy!
Description
The zoo is the perfect place for a curious little monkey to make mischief and new friends!
George is going to visit a new kind of zoo where the animals all roam free. Some of those animals look like a lot of fun—so much fun that a curious monkey can't resist joining them. Giraffes and flamingos are close enough to touch, but George befriends a baby rhino who seems a little sad. Who better to lure her from her hiding place than George? And just in time for her special birthday party!
This new edition includes read-aloud audio!