In this, the original book about the curious monkey, George is taken from the jungle by the man in the yellow hat. and the newly-captured monkey gets him into continual trouble.

The ingenious little monkey who left the jungle to live with the man in the yellow hat is at it again. What happens when he sets off on his new bicycle to deliver newspapers is enough to make heads spin. He builds a whole navy of paper boats, lands in a traveling circus as a daring bicycle rider, gets an ostrich into trouble, and rescues a runaway bear.

After a day of playing with a ball, fishing at the lake, and losing a baby rabbit, Curious George needs to be rescued when he tries to fly a kite.

A curious monkey has some new experiences when he must go to the hospital after swallowing a piece of a jigsaw puzzle.