Laurent de Brunhoff, the author of Babar, has away at the age of 98, reports Breaking News.
He brought back his father’s well-known picture book series about an elephant king and oversaw its expansion into a global brand.
According to his wife, Phyllis Rose, De Brunhoff, a native of Paris who immigrated to the US in the 1980s, passed away on Friday at his Key West, Florida, home following two weeks of hospice care, reports Breaking News.
When his father, Jean de Brunhoff, passed away from TB when Laurent was just 12 years old, he was an adult.
He then used his artistic and storytelling abilities to create hundreds of novels about the elephant who rules Celesteville, including Babar at the Circus and Babar’s Yoga for Elephants.
“Together, father and son have woven a fictive world so seamless that it is nearly impossible to detect where one stopped and the other started,” author Ann S Haskell wrote in The New York Times in 1981, reports Breaking News.
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