to the Babar series. The first six Babar books were reprinted with millions of copies sold around the world. Babar revived Soon after the end of World War II, Laurent, who had become an artistic painter like his father and had also studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, began work on a Babar book of his own. Although his style of painting was different from his father's and he emphasized picture more than text in the creation of his books, he trained himself to draw elephants in strict accord with the style of his father. Consequently, many people did not notice any difference in authorship and assumed the six-year gap in the series was because of the war. Laurent has always been careful to emphasize that Babar was his father's creation (and to some extent his mother's) and that he continued the series largely as a way of keeping the memory of his father and his own childhood alive. Death Jean de Brunhoff died on October 16, 1937, from tuberculosis. Bibliography The Story of Babar. New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1934 The Travels of Babar. New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1934 Babar the King. New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935 A.B.C. of Babar. New York: Random House, 1936 (out of print) Zephir's Holidays (also published as Babar and Zephir and Babar's Friend Zephir). New York: Random House, 1937 Babar and His Children. New York: Random House, 1938 Babar and Father Christmas. New York: Random House, 1940 Further reading Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff, Babar's Anniversary Album: Six Favorite Stories, with an Introduction by Maurice Sendak and family photos and captions by Laurent de Brunhoff (New York: Random House, 1981). Sendak's introduction reprinted in Sendak's Caldecott & Co.: Notes on Books and Pictures (New York: Noonday Press, 1990). Ann Hildebrand, Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff: The Legacy of Babar (New York: Twayne, 1991). Christine Nelson, Drawing Babar: Early Drafts and Watercolors (New York: The Morgan Library and Museum, 2008). Nicholas Fox Weber, The Art of Babar (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989). Dorothée Charles, Les Histoires de Babar (Paris: Les Arts Décoratifs/ Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2011). References External links Lambiek Comiclopedia article about Jean de Brunhoff. 1899 births 1937 deaths Writers from Paris French Army soldiers French military personnel of World War I Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis