Meet Babar and His Family

by Laurent de Brunhoff

Babar (2002)

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Babar and his family enjoy a variety of activities during each of the year's seasons.

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The first in the Babar series that was later made into a television series, this book not only introduces Babar and his family, but introduces the seasons and what Babar and his family usually do during those seasons.
This story introduces Babar, King of the Elephants, and his family. This story talks about what they do in each of the four seasons of the year. This is a good book to help teach children about the seasons of the year.
discusses what babar and his family do during the year.
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Laurent de Brunhoff is the oldest son of Jean and Cecile de Brunhoff. He was born on August 30, 1925. Jean de Brunhoff, his father, began the Babar series of children's books. Laurent has published many more volumes of the tale of Babar. De Brunhoff, who holds both French and American citizenship, was made an Officier de l¿Ordre des Arts et des show more Lettres, and a Chevalier of the Légion d¿Honneur. There have been major exhibitions of his work and his father¿s work in 1981 at the Centre Culturel du Marais in Paris, in 1983-84 in the United States (Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Baltimore Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art, among others). The work of Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff has also been the subject of books by Anne Hildebrand, Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff: The Legacy of Babar, and by Nicholas Fox Weber, The Art of Babar. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title
Meet Babar and His Family
People/Characters
Babar; Celeste; Arthur (elephant); Pom; Flora; Alexander
Important places
Celestville
First words
One morning Babar, the king of the elephants, opens his window.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Pom, Flora, and Alexander stand by the window, hoping to catch a glimpse of Santa Claus.
Original language
English
Canonical DDC/MDS
843.914 [E]
Canonical LCC
PZ7.B82843

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Genres
Children's Books, Picture Books
DDC/MDS
843.914Literature & rhetoricFrench LiteratureFrench fiction1900-20th Century1945-1999
LCC
PZ7 .B82843Language and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresJuvenile belles lettres
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713
Popularity
39,677
Reviews
3
Rating
½ (3.60)
Languages
English, French
Media
Paper, Audiobook
ISBNs
14
ASINs
4