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 ...

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, ...

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” 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 ...

Laurent de Brunhoff carried on his father's legacy by writing over 45 books featuring Babar the elephant Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Continuing our coverage of childhood nostalgia that has inspired us to travel, friend of IT Amelia Mularz sends us a dispatch from the wilds of New York City, where a venerable elephant has taken up ...

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 ...

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