Babar's Anniversary Album: 6 Favorite Books
by Jean de Brunhoff (Author), Laurent de Brunhoff (Author)
Babar (Collections and Selections — Anthology 1, 2, 3, 19, 22, 24)
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Six favourite stories about Babar the elephant are presented in this volume to celebrate his fiftieth anniversary. Translated from de Brunhoff's original French, the adventures of the world's most popular elephant and his friends have enchanted multiple generations. The story of Babar: After his mother is killed by a hunter, Babar avoids capture by escaping to the city, where he is befriended by the kindly Old Lady. He becomes educated and cultured and, upon his return to the great forest, show more is crowned King of the Elephants. The travels of Babar: Babar and Celeste set off in a balloon, beginning an exciting series of adventures. Meanwhile, Babar knows nothing of his home country's escalating war against the rhinos. But with some help from the Old Lady, Babar returns in time to save the day. Babar the king: The elephants work together to build Celesteville, a magnificent city. Everyone has a job to do, celebrations are frequent, and life is peaceful and contented for the elephants. But one fateful day a snake bites the Old Lady and Babar fears that he may lose his oldest friend. Babar's birthday surprise: Queen Celeste has a big surprise planned for Babar's birthday-- a sculptor will carve a giant statue of Babar into a mountainside. But Babar usually rides past the spot where the work is going on. How can the elephants keep their king's birthday surprise a secret? Babar's mystery: While vacationing at Celesteville-on-the-Sea, the Babar family matches wits with a bold gang of thieves. Babar and the wully-wully: Pom, Flora, and Alexander discover a rare wully-wully and bring him home to Celesteville. The lovable creature has a wonderful time playing with the little elephants and their friends, but then Rataxes the rhinoceros decides he wants the wully-wully for himself. show lessTags
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A treasured book read many, many times to Kelsey. Parker, alas, has not been a Babar guy. A must purchase for any parent, well worth the investment in exposing children to wonderful art.
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Jean de Brunhoff 1899 - 1937 Jean de Brunhoff (born December 9, 1899) was a French writer and illustrator known for creating the Babar books, the first of which appeared in 1931. He was the fourth and youngest child of Maurice de Brunhoff, a publisher. After the first book Histoire de Babar (The Story of Babar), six more titles followed before show more Jean de Brunhoff died of tuberculosis at the age of 37. He was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Many people credit Jean's wife, Cécile de Brunhoff, as the real creator of Babar. After Jean's death, his brother Michel de Brunhoff, who was the editor of French Vogue, oversaw the publication in book form of his two last books, Babar and His Children and Babar and Father Christmas. The Babar series continues to be an international bestseller. Babar the elephant is an iconic character who has also been paid tribute by many museums worldwide. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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