Ellen Weiss, Author, Laurent de Brunhoff, Author ABRAMS $16.95 (38p) ISBN 978-0-8109-5700-8
In de Brunhoff's rather awkwardly paced picture book, the first in more than seven years, Babar's son Alexander embarks on a nighttime adventure with a magical bird and gets caught between benevolent and malevolent forces. Unable to sleep, Alexander
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Ellen Weiss, Author, Laurent de Brunhoff, Author ABRAMS $17.95 (32p) 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
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Laurent de Brunhoff, Author . Abrams $16.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4597-5
In this whimsical, wry caper, Celeste and Babar decide to transform the abandoned Celesteville train station into a museum displaying the objets d'art they've collected on their travels. Preparing the building is a collaborative effort—
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Laurent de Brunhoff. Abrams, $18.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4197-1038-4
Babar and family get the Gilligan’s Island treatment in the latest original offering from Jean de Brunhoff’s son. After a storm shipwrecks the family boat, the elephants and their friend the Old Lady are stranded on a deserted island. The drama of...
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Laurent de Brunhoff. Abrams, $18.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4197-0006-4
Olympics-style games have come to Celesteville, and Babar's children ("now grown up") watch various animals compete. When an elephant pole vaulter from Mirza catches Flora's eye, the games become a backdrop for their courtship. Though Flora and Cory
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Laurent de Brunhoff, Author ABRAMS $16.95 (30p) ISBN 978-0-8109-5033-7
Aspiring sleuths will be eager to solve Babar's Mystery (1978) by Laurent de Brunhoff, in which Babar and his family travel to Celesteville-on-the-Sea. A thief strikes repeatedly and the pachyderms conspire to thwart the evildoer. .
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Laurent de Brunhoff, Author ABRAMS $9.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4838-9
De Brunhoff's popular pachyderm is back in a pair of paper-over-board books written by Ellen Weiss. Celeste's children scramble to find the perfect presents for her in Babar: A Gift for Mother, with images adapted by Judith Gray. When Isabelle...
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Laurent de Brunhoff, Author Random House Books for Young Readers $20 (1p) ISBN 978-0-679-83897-5
In this adventure within an adventure, Babar is kidnapped while on a camping trip with his youngest daughter, Isabelle. When the plucky little pachyderm sets off through the woods to find Babar, she meets up with a lion, a monkey and a snake, all of
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Laurent de Brunhoff, Author ABRAMS $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4839-6
A pair of Laurent de Brunhoff titles starring everyone's favorite elephant offer education and adventure. In Babar's Book of Color, the hero's children and nephew learn their colors in Babar's studio, mixing paints while making portraits of ...
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Laurent de Brunhoff, Author Random House Books for Young Readers $11 (30p) ISBN 978-0-394-88689-3
Beloved King Babar and his Queen Celeste have a new addition to the familylittle Isabelle. This is her story, an account of her birth, cradle days, sitting-at-the-dining-table days, walking days, skating days and then running away. She wanders to...
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Laurent de Brunhoff, Author Random House Books for Young Readers $10 (30p) ISBN 978-0-394-87517-0
Like so many concept books, Babar's Counting Book exploits a popular character's appeal to sell children (and their parents) on an educational tool. Any child who is already hooked on Babar will naturally be drawn to the book, but it doesn't...
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Laurent de Brunhoff, Author Abrams Books for Young Readers $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4840-2
A pair of Laurent de Brunhoff titles starring everyone's favorite elephant offer education and adventure. In Babar's Book of Color, the hero's children and nephew learn their colors in Babar's studio, mixing paints while making portraits of ...
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Laurent de Brunhoff, Author ABRAMS $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4244-8
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
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Laurent de Brunhoff, Author . Abrams $16.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8109-1021-8
Babar narrates this lighthearted guide to yoga for pachyderms (and people). He begins by explaining that archeologists working in a cave near Celesteville recently discovered ancient drawings revealing that woolly mammoths not only practiced yogaR
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Laurent de Brunhoff, Author, Ellen Weiss, Author ABRAMS $16.95 (38p) ISBN 978-0-8109-5713-8
More Babar Abrams is reissuing a quartet of Babar titles by Laurent de Brunhoff, son of Babar creator Jean de Brunhoff. First published in 1970, Babar's Birthday Surprise chronicles the attempts of Babar's friends to keep his gift a secret. In...
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Laurent de Brunhoff, Author, Ellen Weiss, Author ABRAMS $17.95 (38p) ISBN 978-0-8109-5707-7
A pair of Laurent de Brunhoff books starring everyone's favorite elephant make their reappearance. Babar's ABC (1983) uses full-page and panel vignettes to cover all 26 letters, starting with the airport, Alexander and Arthur, proceeding through...
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Laurent de Brunhoff, Author, Ellen Weiss, Joint Author ABRAMS $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4398-8
That 12-year-old boy grew up to create some Babar books of his own. In Babar and the Ghost by Laurent de Brunhoff, first published in 1981, the pachyderm and family meet a friendly spirit in a haunted castle. But only the children can see him. ...
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Laurent de Brunhoff, Author, Jean de Brunhoff, Author ABRAMS $9.95 (28p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4583-8
Based on the characters created by Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff, the paper-over-board title Babar and the Christmas House features newcomers to the town of Celesteville who decorate their house for Christmas in attention-grabbing ways.
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Laurent de Brunhoff, Author, Jean de Brunhoff, Author ABRAMS $9.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4582-1
Everyone's favorite elephant, first created by Jean de Brunhoff and continued by his son Laurent de Brunhoff is back in the paper-over-board Babar Goes to School, with text by Ellen Weiss, and with images adapted by Jean-Claude Gilbert. When...
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