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.
De Brunhoff, who was from Paris and moved to the US in the 1980s, died on Friday at his home in Key West, Florida, after being in hospice care for two weeks, according to his widow, Phyllis Rose.
So long colonizer elephant!
https://nextshark.com/colonialism-kids-racist-origins-babar-elephant
I know that’s true, but I can’t let go of my childhood love of Babar. It’s just too deep. I read those books over and over.
I didn’t read them to my own child, but I still think of Babar fondly. I can’t help it.
Babar and Tintin were both riveting l reoccurring childhood favorites. Sad, but I had no idea she was still alive, so congrats to her on such a good run and enduring legacy.
You should read the article again.
Just the photo is enough in case words are hard.
Oh, you’re correct.
Babar and Tintin both glorify colonialism and should probably be retired as things read to children at this point. I said above that I still love Babar fondly, but I did not read the books to my daughter.
That said, Babar is definitely the worse of the two when it comes to that.
It makes more sense when I figured out that Laurent is the son of Jean, the first author of Babar, it makes more sense than Laurent writing the first book at age 6
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