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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Babar, the King of the Elephants tells his children, the story of his early life and how his life was changed after his mother is killed by a hunter. Forced to run away from the jungle by the Hunter, ...

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 ...