This time around, Curious George shares a city apartment with the Man with the Yellow Hat, in high-rise Building 7, overlooking the street below.
First, as Curious George sketches birds from the balcony table, Compass, the Doorman's Homing Pigeon, lands upon the railing, to befriend Curious George, who decides to adopt the bird.
When the Man with the Yellow Hat explains that the identification tag upon Compass the Homing Pigeon's leg indicates that he has a home, Curious George still sets out to adopt his pigeon friend, first by inviting him inside the apartment, and then by designing a makeshift tree for the bird to perch upon the balcony.
Curious George tries at several attempts to construct this tree: by wiring together pipe cleaners, which do no support the pigeon's weight, by molding dough to sculpt a structure, which neither supports the bird's weight, and then by tearing the place apart, gathering wooden objects to attach to a coat rack.
And when Curious George pushes a wheelbarrow filled with soil through the lobby, spilling dirt throughout, and onto the elevator, to reach the apartment balcony, to attach the coat rack onto its floor, Hundley, the Doorman's little Dachshund is blamed by the Doorman for creating the mess.
The Man with the Yellow Hat returns with a small potted tree, but only to find his apartment in shambles, and this, neither, supporting the pigeon's weight.
Compass the Homing Pigeon and his friends seem to prefer the coat rack, before the Doorman ushers Hundley the Daschund, Curious George and the Man with the Yellow Hat to the roof of Apartment Building 7 in order to show them the homing pigeon cages, but will this satisfy the quest for "Curious George's Home for Pigeons?" (Why Curious George isn't reprimanded for leaving the apartment in shambles remains a mystery.)
Next, when Curious George accompanies the Man with the Yellow Hat to the museum, Professor Wiseman lends the Man with the Yellow Hat a copy of her new book about numeric sequences, which he carries toward the fruit and vegetable market.
Along the way, Curious George and the Man with the Yellow Hat encounter Steve, his younger sister, Betsy, and their dog, Charkie the black Cocker Spaniel. Steve plays a portable video game, while lugging a wagon, but Betsy and Charkie do not yet get their turn to play.
But after Curious George and the Man with the Yellow Hat return to their apartment, the Man with the Yellow Hat realizes that he must have forgotten Professor Wiseman's book at the fruit and vegetable market. Upon their return, Curious George discovers the envelope containing the book and is rewarded with another piece of fruit.
After the Man with the Yellow Hat returns to the apartment to read the book, Curious George remains in the business district to search for objects left behind by others in order to reap another potential sweet reward, he thus following a female mail carrier from building to building, retrieving packages which she delivers, and enlisting the help of Steve, Betsy and Charkie the black Cocker Spaniel to return them to her in their wagon.
But when Betsy discovers that the lady, in fact, has delivered these parcels unto the lobbies of numbered apartment buildings, the race is on between the team of Betsy, Charkie and Curious George, vs. Steve to deliver the most packages the quicker, in order to reap the reward of playing his video game, before they discover that 24 deliveries overloading the wagon are all "Out of Order." (How they overload the wagon but not the mail bag remains a mystery.)
First, as Curious George sketches birds from the balcony table, Compass, the Doorman's Homing Pigeon, lands upon the railing, to befriend Curious George, who decides to adopt the bird.
When the Man with the Yellow Hat explains that the identification tag upon Compass the Homing Pigeon's leg indicates that he has a home, Curious George still sets out to adopt his pigeon friend, first by inviting him inside the apartment, and then by designing a makeshift tree for the bird to perch upon the balcony.
Curious George tries at several attempts to construct this tree: by wiring together pipe cleaners, which do no support the pigeon's weight, by molding dough to sculpt a structure, which neither supports the bird's weight, and then by tearing the place apart, gathering wooden objects to attach to a coat rack.
And when Curious George pushes a wheelbarrow filled with soil through the lobby, spilling dirt throughout, and onto the elevator, to reach the apartment balcony, to attach the coat rack onto its floor, Hundley, the Doorman's little Dachshund is blamed by the Doorman for creating the mess.
The Man with the Yellow Hat returns with a small potted tree, but only to find his apartment in shambles, and this, neither, supporting the pigeon's weight.
Compass the Homing Pigeon and his friends seem to prefer the coat rack, before the Doorman ushers Hundley the Daschund, Curious George and the Man with the Yellow Hat to the roof of Apartment Building 7 in order to show them the homing pigeon cages, but will this satisfy the quest for "Curious George's Home for Pigeons?" (Why Curious George isn't reprimanded for leaving the apartment in shambles remains a mystery.)
Next, when Curious George accompanies the Man with the Yellow Hat to the museum, Professor Wiseman lends the Man with the Yellow Hat a copy of her new book about numeric sequences, which he carries toward the fruit and vegetable market.
Along the way, Curious George and the Man with the Yellow Hat encounter Steve, his younger sister, Betsy, and their dog, Charkie the black Cocker Spaniel. Steve plays a portable video game, while lugging a wagon, but Betsy and Charkie do not yet get their turn to play.
But after Curious George and the Man with the Yellow Hat return to their apartment, the Man with the Yellow Hat realizes that he must have forgotten Professor Wiseman's book at the fruit and vegetable market. Upon their return, Curious George discovers the envelope containing the book and is rewarded with another piece of fruit.
After the Man with the Yellow Hat returns to the apartment to read the book, Curious George remains in the business district to search for objects left behind by others in order to reap another potential sweet reward, he thus following a female mail carrier from building to building, retrieving packages which she delivers, and enlisting the help of Steve, Betsy and Charkie the black Cocker Spaniel to return them to her in their wagon.
But when Betsy discovers that the lady, in fact, has delivered these parcels unto the lobbies of numbered apartment buildings, the race is on between the team of Betsy, Charkie and Curious George, vs. Steve to deliver the most packages the quicker, in order to reap the reward of playing his video game, before they discover that 24 deliveries overloading the wagon are all "Out of Order." (How they overload the wagon but not the mail bag remains a mystery.)
