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Babar and Father Christmas

Record Added: 1/16/2010
Illustrator Jean De Brunhoff
Series Babar the Elephant
Setting France
Topic Holidays: Christmas
Publisher Random House Publishers I
Year 1968
Age 4-8   Pages 40
 
The last book to be published before his death, Jean de Brunhoff's Babar and Father Christmas (1940) follows the hero in search of Santa as he attempts to bring Yuletide cheer to Elephants' country. A few spreads were finished by de Brunhoff's then 12-year-old son Laurent.
Notes
A Children's Choice Book Club Edition
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