The Story of Babar: The classic tale of an adventurous elephant that has enchanted generations of readers!

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The groundbreaking debut novel of Hugo Award-winning author Becky Chambers, one of the most imaginative voices in contemporary science fiction, is a truly galactic limited edition.

Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs, nearly two hundred full-color drawings from the original books, plus full-color front and rear endpaper drawings. Dust jacket Very Good+ with a few splits to the flap folds, wear at the spine ends and a few short tears along the edges of the panels. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. The headings and captions have been printed in orange and blue to match the binding of the facsimile.Without his own mother, Babar is a child of the colonial city, happily learning to dress the dandy and eat french pastries. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. This is a glorious edition of a children’s classic, with enchanting illustrations by Charles van Sandwyk. These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site.

This beautiful book is a REAL children's book (as opposed to a book, that adults think children should like!In “Babar the King” (1933)—the central book in the Babar saga—the rhinos and the elephants have been at war, but the point isn’t that the rhinos are evil. Jean de Brunhoff (1899-1937) is considered to be one of the greatest picture book authors in history. Even the elephants, for all their learning and sailor suits, can be turned into slaves through a bad twist of fate. Laurent de Brunhoff, who was twelve when his father died, at the age of just thirty-seven, picked up the elephant brush after the Second World War and has gone on producing Babar books, with the same panache, almost to this day. A neatly printed vintage Christmas 1982 gift inscription at the upper left corner of the half title page.

First, Babar's mother is killed by a hunter, but at the end of the book when Babar sets up his perfect elephant society, the idea that a human can come in a shoot a citizen is never addressed. After his mother is killed by a hunter, Babar escapes to the city, where he meets The Old Lady and becomes educated living among men. Histoire De Babar Le Petit Elephant - First Edition 1931 - some wear on the front and back cover but a goog copy. Jean de Brunhoff, a trained painter, worked hard to make his Babar illustrations as simple as possible.The larger winged elephants, which are at the forefront of this French vision of civilized life, are instead Intelligence, Patience, Learning, and Courage.