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Babar comes to America

Babar pays an official visit to Washington, D.C., then travels around the United States, receiving an honorary degree from Harvard University, fishing in Lake Michaigan, and touring California with his family.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Brunhoff, Laurent de, 1925-
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English French
Published:	New York. : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2008.
Subjects:	Babar (Fictitious character) > Juvenile fiction. Elephants > Juvenile fiction. United States > Description and travel > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	Babar pays an official visit to Washington, D.C., then travels around the United States, receiving an honorary degree from Harvard University, fishing in Lake Michaigan, and touring California with his family.
Item Description:	"An original Laurent De Brunhoff book"--Cover. "Originally published in 1965"--T.p. verso.
Physical Description:	[63] p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
ISBN:	9780810972445 (reinf. bding) 0810972441 (reinf. bding)
Author Notes:	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. (Bowker Author Biography)