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“Laurent de Brunhoff has renewed the Babar tradition. The wise elephant is the epitype of enlightened despotism. Every minister of culture should read the book and learn from it.”

I remember thinking that the best part of the Babar books was that travel looked so delightfully fun, laid-back, and straight-forward. Now I realize how rare that perspective is now-a-days. (Of course this is the perspective of someone who has been called a Habsburg apologist.)

[Via Times Literary Supplement 5502 (September 12 2008), p. 3]