By: Julie Fortenberry,
on 9/11/2013
By: David Elzey,
on 11/22/2011
by Jean de Brunhoff translated from the French by Merle S. Haas Random House 1937 Babar's little monkey friend goes home for summer vacation. All hell breaks loose. It is the end of the school year and time for Babar the elephant to bid his monkey friend Zephir farewell for the summer. As his friends wave goodbye to him as his train passes them by the river it is impossible to wonder if
By: Julie Fortenberry,
on 7/27/2009
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By: Julie Fortenberry,
on 9/22/2008
Freeing the Elephants
Some left-wing critics have read in the Babar story an implicit endorsement of the civilizing effects of French colonialism.
Here's a New Yorker slide show, a NY Times slide show, and a NY Times review of the exhibit at the Morgan Library.
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