“Babar,” Maurice Sendak said, “is at the very heart of my conception of what turns a picture book into a work of art.” — Penelope Green “Babar Comes to America” was published in 196 ...

The miraculous moment when line and color quicken into art occurs as gladly in children’s picture books ... for the surviving drafts of text and illustrations for the creation of Babar, the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — “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 ...

Jean de Brunhoff was the creator of Babar, the elephant whose life and high times he illustrated in a series of picture books read by children the world over. Babar, his Queen Celeste, his kindly ...

we discovered Babar’s Museum of Art, an introduction to masterpieces of art with all the human figures changed into elephants. (Picture Michelangelo’s “Creation of Adam” with a bearded ...