![]() ![]() The boys were so enamored of the stories-an origin story shared by such classic works as The Wind in the Willows and the Winnie-the-Pooh series-that they clamored for more, asking their father, a fine artist, to create illustrations for them. ![]() It’s a very fin-de-siècle look, one that Jean de Brunhoff evoked from his own childhood while spinning bedtime stories of Babar the Elephant for his young sons in the Jazz Age. ![]() ![]() Fortunately, help is at hand: “A very rich Old Lady who has always been fond of little elephants understands right away that he is longing for a fine suit.” Presto: A couple of pages later, Babar has entered a fancy department store, where he purchases a Kelly green suit, a derby, “and also shoes with spats.” He’s welcome there, with one proviso: like Adam after the Fall, he must clothe his nakedness. Babar flees, the hunter in pursuit.īabar soon finds himself in a city that looks very much like Paris. Then, suddenly, a White hunter fires a shot, and the young elephant’s mother falls dead. A young elephant lives in a forest paradise, all palm trees, ponds, and low hills. ![]()
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