News about Jean de Brunhoff

Laurent de Brunhoff, a Babar author who revived his father's famous picture book series about an elephant and presided over its ascension to a multinational, multimedia company, has died. He was 98. According to De Brunhoff's widow, Phyllis Rose, a Paris native who immigrated to the United States in the 1980s, died on Friday at his Key West, Florida home, after being in hospice care for two weeks following a stroke. Jean de Brunhoff, his father, had drawn the first illustrations of Babar, which had started as a bedtime tale told their children.