However, his son Laurent carried on the stories, he learned to draw the elephant just the same way his father had and so Babar and his family could experience many more adventures. Zephir's Holidays and Babar's Friend Zephir (Les vacances de Zéphir) - 1937īabar and His Children (Babar en famille) - 1938īabar and Father Christmas (Babar et le père Noël) - 1940 The Travels of Babar (Le Voyage de Babar) - 1934 The Story of Babar (Histoire de Babar) - 1934 So, he didn't get to write all the many books about "his" elephant.
Unfortunately, the author died of tuberculosis when he was only 37 years old. Jean de Brunhoff's wife Cécile had told their children these stories about an elephant in a city.Īs happens with so many other books (especially children's books), the cover has changed a lot over the time (see the collage at the top) but the drawings have always changed the same. His mother is killed in the jungle and this is how he ends up in town. But since we do " Paris in July", this is the perfect opportunity to introduce him to those who haven't heard of him, though I doubt there are that many. I noticed that I never wrote about Babar even though my most favourite animal is an elephant.
My sons also loved Barbar, Céleste and their family both on TV and in their books. And since he's over 50 by now, that is a long, long time ago. I remember my little brother watching Babar the Elephant on TV. De Brunhoff, Jean " The Story of Babar" (French: Histoire de Babar le petit éléphant) - 1934
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