"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 ...

After his father, who created the character, died, he continued the series of books about a modest elephant and his escapades in Paris for seven decades. By Penelope Green Laurent de Brunhoff, the ...

Babar is a young elephant in the great forest. Whilst out with his mother a hunter kills his mother and he flees to escape the same fate. He eventually finds himself in a human city and experiences ...