Babar author Laurent de Brunhoff poses for a photograph with Babar while celebrating 75 years of the book on Friday, April 21, 2006 at Mabel’s Fables in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. De Brunhoff, a Paris ...

The rhinos are agitating. The elephants don't want to fight. But there is such a thing as honor, and so the decision must be made. War. I pause, and raise my head from the book in front of us. My ...

NEW YORK -- Once upon a time, a woman who belonged to an illustrious French publishing family was trying to get her two young sons to sleep. Perhaps sensing the fascination children have with very ...