Review & Giveaway: A Very Monkey Christmas — My Blog Anniversary

November 18, 2009

By Jill

Curious George is a character from my childhood. When my daughter was a baby I could not wait for her to be ready for longer books. We read books from the time our oldest was a few days old.

In the Musings from Me house it is never too early to read books! A few books became our go-to, every night books – Goodnight Moon. While a few became our “let’s not read this one again and can I safely put it away so that I don’t have to read it again.” I’m talking to you: Love You Forever with your odd storyline about a mother who rocks her baby and her toddler and her elementary schooler and her college student and finally her grownup son who she has to climb through a window to rock. Uh, and then she dies. Depressing.

Now my husband’s least favorite book was The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body – not because he hated the storyline, but because the book took “4 days to read” per my husband due to illustrations and sidebars. Not that he exaggerates or anything!

But, Curious George was such a good book about a happy go lucky monkey. I could have done without the pipe smoking and the hunting down a monkey in the jungle and putting him a sack, but aside from that Curious George is a good story. My middle daughter’s first word was “Mon Mon.”

My younger two loved Curious George, the TV show. In fact, it was the one show that a 2-year-old and a 6-year-old could watch together! No arguments about what’s on TV!

When my youngest was about 3, his first movie in a movie theater was…Curious George!

You can imagine how thrilled our family was to get a prescreen copy of the new movie: Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas! We got to see it before anyone else…kind of like a movie premiere in your family room! Saweet!

Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas will premiere on PBS on November 25 (the day before Thanksgiving on PBS Kids). It will also air on PBS (locally on WETA TV 26, but check your local listings) on Saturday, November 28 at 7:30 AM and air again on Monday, November 30 at noon. Visit PBSKids to learn more about the series and play A Very Monkey Christmas game!

GIVEAWAY for Musings from Me readers: I am giving away four items! One copy of Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas DVD AND three coupons for $2 off when you buy the DVD. A Win Win! One comment = one entry.

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I was given a party pack for review with a DVD, a music CD, a puzzle, a game, a picture book, and popcorn. Giveaway is open to U.S. residents only. Giveaway ends December 9 at 11:59 p.m.

93 Responses to Review & Giveaway: A Very Monkey Christmas — My Blog Anniversary

Dddiva on December 9, 2009 at 1:04 am

Hmm We always liked Are you my mother?
Dddiva on December 9, 2009 at 1:05 am

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Jennifer M on December 9, 2009 at 1:05 am

I loved Where The Wild Things Are.
Dddiva on December 9, 2009 at 1:06 am

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Julie L on December 9, 2009 at 8:57 am

A favorite is “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs’
Julie L on December 9, 2009 at 8:58 am

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hazel hunt on December 9, 2009 at 11:04 am

Would be nice to win!
Wehaf on December 9, 2009 at 11:34 am

The Thirteen Clocks, by James Thurber.
adrienne Gordon on December 9, 2009 at 2:22 pm

My kids like “I Stink”
Maja on December 9, 2009 at 2:33 pm

andersen’s fairytales
Maja on December 9, 2009 at 2:35 pm

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Honey Mommy on December 9, 2009 at 4:14 pm

We read a lot of picture books right now. We love anything by Laura Numeroff, like “If you take a mouse to the movies.”
Heather S on December 9, 2009 at 4:20 pm

WE love the Dr Seuss books!
Maggie Chavez on December 9, 2009 at 4:35 pm

I loved The Very Hungry Caterpiller.
Sandy M on December 9, 2009 at 7:51 pm

I can still recite “Tweety’s Little Blue House” by heart and I’m 62 years old. I guess it was my favorite.
Sandy M on December 9, 2009 at 7:52 pm

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Leslie S. on December 9, 2009 at 8:11 pm

Where the Wild Thing Are is my favorite kids book.Thanks!
Deb K on December 9, 2009 at 8:45 pm

Green Eggs and Ham was one of our favorites
xenia on December 9, 2009 at 8:45 pm

Hmm, probably a tie between Brown Bear, Brown Bear and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. Curious George is her all-time favorite character though!
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Angela C on December 9, 2009 at 9:18 pm

My favorite kids book is Where the Sidewalk ends.
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dawn on December 9, 2009 at 9:40 pm

Green Eggs and Ham by Seuss.
Tim Hughes on December 9, 2009 at 10:25 pm

The Very Hungry Caterpiller is my favorite kids book.
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my favorite book as a kid was how to eat fried worms, it was everyone’s favorite, you could never check it out in the school library because it was always out
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Kim Young on December 10, 2009 at 12:08 am

Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb was one of my favorites and now I read the exact same book from my childhood to my kids. Courtesy of my mom keeping everything.
Kim Young on December 10, 2009 at 12:11 am

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Jennifer Jozwiak on December 10, 2009 at 12:54 am

i loved if i ran the circus by dr seuss!
Gianna on December 10, 2009 at 12:57 am

Popeye climbs a mountain