How well do you remember the story of Babar the Elephant? In many ways, the French children’s book, created in 1931 by Jean de Brunhoff, is the story of a renaissance man. Despite a tragic beginning ...

Few children’s books have been as successful immediately upon publication as Histoire de Babar, published first in France in 1931 and then two years later as The Story of Babar in the U.S., complete ...

"Babar" author Laurent de Brunhoff, who revived his father's popular picture book series about an elephant-king and presided over its rise to a global, multimedia franchise, has died. He was 98. De ...

For more than seven decades, Laurent de Brunhoff painted the adventures of the world’s most beloved elephant. Laurent de Brunhoff in 2007. He wrote and illustrated more than 45 Babar books after his ...

Writer and illustrator Laurent de Brunhoff, who continued his father’s legacy by producing dozens of original books for his “Babar the Elephant” series, has died aged 98. De Brunhoff died at his home ...

One literary organizer said to another: “Can you get a couple of Babar people to come in and read at the Octopus?” The resulting reading series, Babar in Exile, celebrates one year of quarterly shows ...