Word: babar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BABAR'S VISIT TO BIRD ISLAND (40 pp.) -Laurent de Brunhoff-Random House ($3.50). What happens when a royal family of elephants pays a social visit to the Bird King & Queen, told with engaging naturalness by a French author-artist who knows how to splash his pages with vivid panoramic views that have what every child loves in a picture-a brilliant general impression combined with endless small details to be picked out at leisure...
...style as clear as a summer day. But in 21 years of making children's records, he has amassed a Bingle-sized following among the hobbyhorse set, which also means Bingle-sized record sales. Some of his 950 Decca records, such as the original, out-of-print Babar* series (1936), have even become collector's items...