nprbooks:A piece of children’s book history is now on display atHarvard’s Houghton Library: The libr
nprbooks:A piece of children’s book history is now on display atHarvard’s Houghton Library: The library has acquiredthe sketches and proofs that led to Jean de Brunhoff’s ABC de Babar, first published in Paris in 1934.Jean’s Babar books were inspired by the stories hiswife, pianist Cécile de Brunhoff, told their children at bedtime. Jean wrote andillustrated seven Babar books before his death in 1937. After 1937, Jean and Cécile’sson, Laurent, picked up where his father left off, writing and illustratingmore than 40 books about the beloved elephant.You can read all about the acquisition and a very special visit from Laurent de Brunhoff in the Harvard Gazette article Babar Comes to Harvard. -- source link
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