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 ...

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, the King of the Elephants tells his children, the story of his early life and how his life was changed after his mother is killed by a hunter. Forced to run away from the jungle by the Hunter, ...

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 Brunhoff, is the story of a renaissance man. Despite a tragic beginning ...

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 ...