Tuesday, September 16, 2008

What He Was Doing in my Pyjamas, I'll Never Know

"The hunter has killed Babar's mother. The monkey hides, the birds fly away, Babar cries. The hunter runs up to catch poor Babar."

In the latest issue of the New Yorker, Adam Gopnik writes about the Babar series of children's books, drawn by Jean de Brunhoff (and later, his son, Laurent.) He calls them, "part of the common language of childhood" but I am not sure if I was ever shown the first book.

be sure to also check out the online extra, the portfolio of artwork. Some are finished works, others only studies. Very cool & now I want to try my hand at watercoloring.

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