Original babar the elephant5/13/2023 Dust jacket has light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds. The reader is presented with the development from rough sketches to final illustrations much of this material has never before been reproduced." Book is Near Fine. He has a lot to say about how both he and his father used watercolor, and the author has explored this technical aspect of their art. In 'The Art of Babar' (the author) has worked with Laurent de Brunhoff to recapture aspects of the artist's childhood in France and the values that he grew up with. The elephant actually had been the invention of his mother, Cecile, who thought up the first adventure one evening as a bedtime story for Laurent and his younger brother, Mathieu. In bringing Babar back, Laurent was holding on to an enchanted childhood as well as keeping alive the legacy of his beloved father. He wrote and illustrated his first Babar book when he was twenty-one and has now done thirty Babar books. In 1946 his artist son Laurent took up where Jean had left off. "Babar was created by the painter Jean de Brunhoff, who produced the first seven books of the series between 19, the year of his untimely death. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, b&w and colour reproductions. Bright red cloth with blindstamped Babar on front board, white lettering on spine, yellow endpapers.
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