cover image Babar and the Scary Day

Babar and the Scary Day

Ellen Weiss, Abrams. ABRAMS, $9.95 (24pp) ISBN 978-0-8109-5019-1

The young pachyderm protagonists Isabelle, Pom, Flora and Alexander feel certain that a ""huge, green, foot-dragging, chain-rattling monster"" is responsible for the ""thump-drag-rattle-clank"" coming from the attic in the paper-over-board Babar and the Scary Day by Ellen Weiss, illus. by Jean-Claude Gibert, inspired by the artwork of Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff. Luckily, they come out of hiding long enough to discover the true culprit. (Oct.) .