Ha rey6/30/2023 “It made me immune to all commercials for life,” she told The Times.Ī French publisher was so taken with Hans’ animal cartoons that he suggested they do a children’s book. They settled in Paris where he drew newspaper cartoons and she wrote advertising copy, in particular some singing commercials for margarine. After Margret studied art at the Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany, and the Academy of Art in Dusseldorf, Germany, she went to Rio de Janeiro where she began working as a photographer.Īgain she encountered Hans Rey and they married in 1935. He was then 18 and courting her older sister. She met her future husband in Hamburg when she was 10 and slid down a banister right into him. Rey celebrated her 90th birthday in May by donating $1 million each to the Boston Public Library and to Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital Center for Alternative Medicine for Research. The carefully monitored merchandising of Curious George books, puzzles, filmstrips, stuffed animals, children’s clothing, wristwatches and lunch boxes was lucrative. “Then, by pleasant coincidence, the children liked what we liked. “We wrote for ourselves,” Margret Rey told The Times last May.
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