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DIED. CECILE DE BRUNHOFF, 99, who invented the tale of Babar the elephant, which her husband, writer-painter Jean de Brunhoff, and later her son Laurent, turned into the famous, internationally beloved series of illustrated children's books, which now number close to 50; in Paris. To calm her sons Laurent and Mathieu one night in 1930 when the latter was ill, she told the story of an orphaned elephant who flees the jungle and winds up in a big city much like Paris...
...BABAR, National Academy of Design, New York City. Nearly 150 drawings and watercolors from the adventures of everybody's favorite elephant king by his personal biographers, Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff, along with art workshops for children, readings and a lecture. Through...
...introduction, Maurice Sendak, doyen of children's literature, notes that the first three books in Babar's Anniversary Album (Random House; $12.95) were written by a young, dying father who supplied Babar and the other sensitive pachyderms with a philosophy as warm as their habitat. Jean de Brunhoff's son Laurent wrote the last three works with no falling-off of humor or warmth. Brunhoff pére et fils double-page compositions, replete with elephantine architecture, landscapes and jokes, have the logic of fantasy and the color of gift wrapping...
BABAR THE ELEPHANT (NBC, 7:30-8 p.m.) Peter Ustinov narrates an animated adaptation of the children's stories by the late French writer and artist Jean de Brunhoff. The program is based on the firs three Babar books: The Story of Babar The Travels of Babar and Babar the King...
...Created by the late Jean de Brunhoff and perpetuated by his son Laurent, The Story of Babar, The Travels of Babar, Babar the King, and six other sequels have sold more than 2,000,000 copies...