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Babar on Paradise Island

Babar, his family, and the Old Lady are shipwrecked on what seems to be a desert island, but soon they have made a new friend who calms their fears and introduces them to his pleasant way of life.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Brunhoff, Laurent de, 1925-
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, [2014]
Subjects:	Elephants > Juvenile fiction. Shipwrecks > Juvenile fiction. Castaways > Juvenile fiction. Islands > Juvenile fiction. Dragons > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	Babar, his family, and the Old Lady are shipwrecked on what seems to be a desert island, but soon they have made a new friend who calms their fears and introduces them to his pleasant way of life.
Physical Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
ISBN:	9781419710384 : 1419710389
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)