Laurent de Brunhoff carried on his father's legacy by writing over 45 books featuring Babar the elephant Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...
Laurent de Brunhoff, the artist who revived his father’s picture book series about beloved children’s character, Babar the elephant, has died at the age of 98. According to the New York Times, de ...
When French author and illustrator Jean de Brunhoff died of tuberculosis at the age of 37, it looked as though one of the best loved characters in children's literature—Babar the elephant—would die ...