DE BRUNHOFF, LAURENT — Babar Visits Another Planet
New York: Random House Books for Young Readers, 1972. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394824296. This book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners have some light bumping and rubbing. There are a couple of small spots of discoloration to the rear cover. The text pages are clean and bright. "After the war, Laurent, who inherited his father's artistic gift, trained at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière under the painter Othon Friesz and began living as an artist in Montparnasse. But, wishing to maintain his tie to his father and the imaginative world of his childhood, he turned back to the character his father had drawn and taught himself to draw in his father's style. What Christine Nelson calls their "intergenerational artistic partnership" had begun even earlier, when Laurent was a teenager, and was asked to do the color for several pages that his father had left in black and white. His own first Babar book, Babar et ce coquin dArthur (Babars Cousin, That Rascal Arthur) , was published in 1946 when Laurent was 21. " (From Wikipedia). Very Good+ .
