Their mothers aren't too happy though with the disappearance of their progeny so they visit the town, search out their children and berate them sternly. He takes them to an outfitter and buys them some lovely clothes and then they visit a cake shop for the best tea the two cousins have ever had in their lives. She buys him everything he wants - even a car, and they travel all over the place with Babar asking so many questions about things that she eventually gets him a tutor.Īfter a couple of blissful years, Babar and the old lady are strolling downtown when the elephant spots his two little cousins - Arthur and Celeste, and what a pleasant reunion that is. They get on well together because the old lady is very considerate and can't seem to do enough for her great big friend.
This suits Babar very much and he accepts the invitation gladly. Babar finds a big shop and purchases a shirt, tie, coat, trousers, shoes and even some spats and after he's donned his new duds he visits his lady friend for dinner and she says he can stay with her if he likes. He reaches a town and an elderly and very rich lady who likes elephants sees him, takes out her purse, and offers it to him so that he can buy some clothes and she also extends an invitation to dine at her place. He cries bitterly by his mother's side and then, heeding a warning from a monkey and some birds, he starts running for his life leaving behind him the Great Forest and all the things he knows and loves. One day when Babar's mother is clumping through the woods piggy-backing her young son a hunter raises his gun and shoots her dead! What a shock for Babar. yes, the young elephants lead full and happy lives. He enjoys playing games of 'Catch' and 'Follow-My-Leader' and cavorting with his friends in the pond where they swim around and use their long trunks to squirt each other.
As she has done with other classics, Enid Blyton seized on the Babar stories and produced her own version in late 1941 which was promptly reprinted a second and third time in the same year.īabar grows up in the Great Forest and learns all the things that elephants need to know.
Review by Terry Gustafson Jean de Brunhoff wrote the books about Babar the elephant and they became popular in many countries.
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