Curious George Rides a Bike

 By H. A. Rey

This book is not about George; it's about the completely daft people residing in the town who facilitate him.

 First, there's the man that he lives with.  The man in the yellow hat is constantly giving George toys to play with and then ignoring him, or just plain disappearing and leaving the monkey to run wild.

 Look at this irresponsible youth.  He sees a monkey and decides that this is a great opportunity for him to phone it in.  That's right, the MONKEY can deliver the papers for him.  And we're supposed to think that George is the one being naughty?

George ends up busting his bike and getting kidnapped, and when the man in the yellow hat sees him at the animal fair (AKA circus with poorly treated animals.  EVERY book has one, I swear.) everyone forgives him because he rides a bike so well.  Or something.  Even though nothing that happened was his fault.  And, what the hell?  Man with yellow hat goes home to find that his beloved friend is missing, but has tickets to the fair, so he just goes anyway?

Obviously, my daughter loved this book.