With apologies to and in admiration of H.A. Rey, and with an eye on the upcoming movie about one of my favorite childhood characters, I felt that an appropriate honor is in order (of course with a little poetic license and wishful thinking).
Hopefully, you will enjoy it as much as I enjoyed putting this together.....
This was George a few years ago.
More below:
George liked to have fun. But then, daddy's friends wanted him to stop having fun and be an important person. George wasn't so sure, but daddy's friends said that it would be fun too.
But some people weren't so sure this was a good idea. These people knew how George was, and that he made a mess of everything he was involved in.
And so, George decided to please daddy's friends and try to be that important person. When 5 of daddy's real good friends told the country that they decided to make him the president, George was very happy, and he celebrated.
But soon, George got himself into trouble. He didn't realize that this was going to be tough work. Poor George just wanted to ride his bike and play all day like he used to.
Suddenly, there were many things that George had to deal with. Many of these things were problems that George, his friends and his daddy's friends created themselves. Things like wanting to be king of the world.
But George couldn't read so well. And he couldn't spell so well either. Poor George.
And he spelled the name of the country that was threatening him wrong. Silly George, he should know the difference between "IraQ" and "IraN".
Then, George's friend Alberto said that he discovered a way for George to listen to other people's phone calls without telling anyone. But Alberto said that George has to tell everyone that we are only listening to the bad guys. Unfortunately, some of George's friends, and some of his daddy's friends weren't happy that George was listening to their calls. They even said that what George was doing was illegal. They told his friend Alberto that he was lying and that noone can just listen to other people's phone calls the way that Alberto said that George could. And so, the police came to take George away because what he did was wrong. And it was bad. Very bad.
And when all was said and done, George was in big big trouble. So much trouble that even daddy's friends couldn't help him.
At least we can all hope so.....