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 ...

(CNN) — Writer and illustrator Laurent de Brunhoff, who continued his father’s legacy by producing dozens of original books for his “Babar the Elephant” series, has died aged 98. De Brunhoff died at ...

Laurent de Brunhoff carried on his father's legacy by writing over 45 books featuring Babar the elephant Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Laurent de Brunhoff is very hard of hearing, and much more tentative with the English language than a man who’s lived in America for 32 years ought to be. He is taciturn, too, seldom uttering more ...