Author of Babar children’s books dies at 98
#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 at the age of 98.
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> .. he launched into a critique of Babar, the French elephant whose adventures were chronicled for children by #JeanDeBrunhoff.. Ariel described vividly the way de #Brunhoff in his elegant, oversized picture books had tortured history into the shape of a colonial tale that fit well with the French imperial mission civilatrice. He was dazzling and convincing.. he .. responded as if this were the only conceivable answer.. “I read Babar to them.”
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