KEY WEST, Fla. — Laurent de Brunhoff, the French artist who revived his father’s popular picture book series about Babar, an elephant-king, died Friday. He was 98. According to his widow, Phyllis Rose ...

Babar is a young elephant in the great forest. Whilst out with his mother a hunter kills his mother and he flees to escape the same fate. He eventually finds himself in a human city and experiences ...

Laurent de Brunhoff is very hard of hearing, and much more tentative with the English language than a man who’s lived in America for 32 years ought to be. He is taciturn, too, seldom uttering more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How well do you remember the story of Babar the Elephant? In many ways, the French children’s book, created in 1931 by Jean de ...