Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How well do you remember the story of Babar the Elephant? In many ways, the French children's book, created in 1931 by Jean de ...

Laurent de Brunhoff, the French artist and author who popularized a cartoon elephant king who ruled in children’s literature and entertainment for decades, died Friday at his home in Key West, Fla., ...

“Babar” author Laurent de Brunhoff, who revived his father’s popular picture book series about an elephant-king and presided over its rise to a global, multimedia franchise, has died. He was 98. De ...

How well do you remember the story of Babar the Elephant? In many ways, the French children’s book, created in 1931 by Jean de Brunhoff, is the story of a renaissance man. Despite a tragic beginning ...