Elephants and old masters At 78, Laurent de Brunhoff has just finished his latest Babar book, the story of a gallery filled with familiar but elephantine works of art. He talks to Helena de Bertodano

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: September 14, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

At first glance, the painting looks familiar enough: Georges Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. There is the monkey playing at the feet of the elegant couple strolling under the trees; and there are the people gazing out at the water. But there is one vital difference. The characters are all elephants, not humans.

For this is a picture in Babar's Gallery, the latest in the Babar series, brought to us by Laurent de Brunhoff, the son of Jean de Brunhoff, who created the original Babar books in the 1930s. Babar's Gallery, to be published on September 29, tells the ...

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