What an awful little book - almost as bad as that horrifying story, The Giving Tree. Poor wee George is taken by a poacher, essentially - oh, he's not called a poacher, he's too high-class for that, but it's essentially the same thing. George is destined for the zoo, and on the way he nearly drowns, is put in jail, hangs from balloons at risk of a falling death, and all this is presented as Silly George, What Fun!

Never mind, Georgie. Planet of the Apes is coming and then you'll get yours.