After seven decades, Babar continues to be a rational and reliable figure to look up to in a world that is often unpredictable and difficult.Ĭhildren who grew up on Babar will never forget him. Not one word or picture has been left out.įrom the first story, in which Babar leaves the jungle and-with the help of the Old Lady-becomes quite the elephant about Paris, through all of Babar's adventures as king of the elephants, Jean de Brunhoff created a world ruled by a benign and democratic leader and a loving, if sometimes beleaguered, father.
Here are the classic stories about the world's most beloved elephant, the stories read by one generation to the next. Here in one regal book are all six Babar stories that Jean de Brunhoff wrote and illustrated between 1931 and his premature death in 1937.
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