Often considered the father of the modern picture book, Jean de Brunhoff (1899-1937)is best known as the creator of Babar the elephant, one of the most beloved characters in twentieth-century juvenile...
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L'Histoire de Babar, or The Story of Babar as they call the book in English, started out as a mother telling her 2 little boys a story, while they were lying ill in bed. The mother was Cécile ...
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Jean de Brunhoff
