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Title: Bonjour, Babar! : The Six Unabridged Classics by the Creator of Babar by Kevin Henkes, Jean De Brunhoff ISBN: 0-375-81060-9 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 26 September, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great fun for the whole family
Comment: My husband and I grew up on Babar. So when we saw this book we bought for our 4 month old son. He loves to hear our voices as we read to him and he also loves the bright colored pictures. We enjoy the memories that the stories bring back to us. A great addition to anyones collection.
TIP: We take the dust cover of any of his books that have dust covers and put them in plastic sleeves for later when we are sure he will not rip them up. That way when he is older the book looks like new even though it really is old.
Rating: 3
Summary: "Original" art? Ha!
Comment: I was so thrilled to get this book as a gift, especially since it includes the long out-of-print "Babar and Zephir." When I began to leaf through it, being very familiar with the older editions, I grew sicker with every page. Jean de Brunhoff's stunning artwork has been absolutely destroyed.
Do you know how you feel when watching an old black-and-white movie that you have long loved which has been "colorized"? Yes, your favorite golden age actress now has pink skin, fucshia lips too big for her face and what color are her eyes supposed to be, exactly? The Babar art has been colorized in the most grotesque and garish sense of the word--which is really horrid when you consider that most of Brunhoff's original illustrations were already in color to begin with. Random House has decided, apparently, that Brunhoff's colors are not bright enough. Where Brunhoff shaded, Random House has plastered one uniform cartoonish shade from line to line. Babar's green suit ranges from merely loud green to splitting-headache green. The suit which he wears while playing trumpet in the circus defies description. Suffice it to say it is very blue and very red.
The beautiful scene in which the Celesteville residents bring gifts to infants Pom, Flora, and Alexander has lost its pastoral sweetness and is positively grotesque. The babies lie in their pram, which looks as though my kindergartener re-outlined it in black magic marker, under glaring green palms and flowers with a turquoise blanket scarcely dimmer than the book's cover (see above), while royal blue butterflies flit nearby. Babar is standing in a suit that is (if possible) even greener than the greenery directly behind him. A uniformly orange cow and dromedary are in the reception line. Think Fisher Price.
Does your child really need to know that the mermaid Eleanore's sisters are peeking out of the water when Zephir captures Eleanore? Due to the paint job the sea has suffered, you may need to point this out, as Brunhoff's few lines are no longer recognizable as the tops of mermaid heads. Somebody overdid the brown on the faces of General Huc and Colonel Aristobald, these brave and clever monkeys no longer have visible eyes, mouths, or hairlines.
The subtlety, the grace, the old-world patina of the gorgeous Babar art is gone. In its place, we have. . .well, they do say that bright colors are good for babies' development.
I want to cry.
Rating: 5
Summary: A GREAT CHILDREN'S BOOK!
Comment: We have a 3 year old and a 2 year old and they both really love Babar and the gang. They love the book and Babar videos. We've had this book for over a year, and our children continue to ask us to read it to them. This book is wonderfully illustrated and humorous. Enjoyable even for adults.
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Title: The Complete Adventures of Curious George by H. A. Rey, H.A. Rey ISBN: 0618164413 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 25 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Mad About Madeline: The Complete Tales by Ludwig Bemelmans, Anna Quindlen ISBN: 0670888168 Publisher: Viking Childrens Books Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Babar's Museum of Art by Laurent De Brunhoff ISBN: 0810945975 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Babar's Little Girl by Laurent De Brunhoff ISBN: 0810957035 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Complete Tales & Poems of Winnie-The-Pooh by A. A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard ISBN: 0525467262 Publisher: Dutton Books Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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