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Curious George Goes to the Hospital
Scared of the hospital? So was George. Then he found the wheelchairs. 🐒
Who it's for
The Reys made this book because staff at Boston Children's Hospital asked them to help prepare children for hospital stays, and it still does that job well.
Scared→Reassured
Feelings it meets
What it is
George swallows a jigsaw-puzzle piece he mistakes for candy and wakes up with a stomachache. Doctor Baker sends him to the hospital, where he has an X-ray, meets a frightened girl named Betsy on her first hospital visit, and stays on the children's ward.
Where to find it
In print (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / Clarion), in most public libraries, and as an ebook; read-aloud videos are widely available.
Before you start
Heads up: Gentle hospital procedures.
Age: Ages 3–7
And if it is a fear you would dispel, the seat of that fear is in your heart and not in the hand of the feared.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, “On Freedom”
