cover image Babar's Counting Book

Babar's Counting Book

Laurent de Brunhoff, Ellen Weiss. ABRAMS, $17.95 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-8109-4243-1

Two of Laurent de Brunhoff's tales of Babar, originally created by his father, Jean de Brunhoff, are available once more: Babar's Counting Book (1986), in which Babar counts from ""1 big bird"" to 10 storks flying overhead (the penultimate spread extends the fun to 20 elephants); and Babar and his family take a rocket past the moon and Mars to an uncharted destination covered with caramel in Babar Visits Another Planet (1972).