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Babar's World Tour

Babar's World Tour( )
Author: de Brunhoff, Laurent
ISBN:978-0-8109-9756-1
Publication Date:Nov 2010
Publisher:Abrams, Inc.
Imprint:Abrams Books for Young Readers
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $10.86
Book Description:

The latest from venerable storyteller and brilliant artist Laurent de Brunhoff has Babar's family on a world tour! They visit a number of countries around the globe. First stop is Italy where they learn to say "Buon giorno! Hello!" After that, it's off to Germany, Spain, Russia, India, Japan, and Thailand. Then Mexico, the Southwest United States, Egypt, Antarctica, and, of course, France.In each place the children learn to say "hello" and discover a bit about the local culture....
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Book Details
Pages:48
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):22.3 x 31.2 x 0.5 cm
Book Weight:0.302 Kilograms
Author Biography
de Brunhoff, Laurent (Author)
Laurent de Brunhoff is the oldest son of Jean and Cecile de Brunhoff. He was born on August 30, 1925. Jean de Brunhoff, his father, began the Babar series of children's books. Laurent has published many more volumes of the tale of Babar. De Brunhoff, who holds both French and American citizenship, was made an Officier de l¿Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and a Chevalier of the Légion d¿Honneur.

There have been major exhibitions of his work and his father¿s work in 1981 at the Centre Culturel du Marais in Paris, in 1983-84 in the United States (Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Baltimore Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art, among others). The work of Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff has also been the subject of books by Anne Hildebrand, Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff: The Legacy of Babar, and by Nicholas Fox Weber, The Art of Babar.

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