About this item
Welcome the newest addition to Babar’s family: Baby Isabelle! Follow Isabelle as she learns to walk, celebrates her first birthday, explores nature, and experiences the joys of a loving family. Young readers will embrace the humorous text and gratifying illustrations, and parents will be brought back to their own childhoods. This bite-size adaptation of the classic picture book Babar’s Little Girl is sure to please all. Praise for Babar and the New Baby "A starter set for grown-up Babar fans who want to introduce the classic characters to their children." --Kirkus Reviews
About the Author
Laurent de Brunhoff (born August 30, 1925, Paris, France) is an author and illustrator, known primarily for continuing the Babar series of children's books, created by his father, Jean de Brunhoff. The children’s classic, Babar, began as a bedtime story that Cécile de Brunhoff told her young sons, Laurent and Mathieu, in 1930, when they were five and four years old, respectively. They loved the story about the little elephant so much that they asked their father, who was an artist, to draw pictures for them of the elephant world their mother had described. He did and eventually created a book, Histoire de Babar: le petit éléphant (The Story of Babar), which was published by Jardin des Modes, a family-run publishing house. Jean de Brunhoff created six more Babar books and had one more son, Thierry, but died of tuberculosis at age 37 in 1937.
