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sharnibee's review against another edition
4.0
Babar forever! I watch the animated version of this most years - so it was an interesting to see it in its original format. No Rataxes! It's so lovely, I especially love the double page illustration of the family around the Christmas tree.
rebeccabateman's review against another edition
2.0
I admit, I've never quite known what to think about Babar. (Not to mention how to correctly say his name. My husband and I have had hundreds of two arguments about whether it is Ba BAR' [me] or BAB' ar [he].) There is something unaffected about the simplistic colorful drawings and the stylish up-right pachyderm family that really appeals to me. It may stem from the fact that as a child I never owned a Babar book and he was known to me only in a distant, library-check-out sort of relationship. Intellectually, however, I know that these books are really not very well written.
This holiday version is the same: really not very well written, but cute and strangely enticing.
This holiday version is the same: really not very well written, but cute and strangely enticing.
calistareads's review against another edition
3.0
Like many books from the 30s and 40s, this book is very long and wordy. This story takes time.
The interesting thing about this book is that the story of Santa is all different. Santa lives in Bohemia. Babar is on a quest to find Santa and invite him to the kingdom of elephants. He goes all over looking for him, but not the North Pole. In Bohemia he finds Santa living under ground. He is so tired that Babar invites him to his country to be in the sun and get back to health. Jean goes off script and just makes up his own stuff. It's interesting. Each country has different traditions for sure and that's interesting to see.
We read this to the kids and it did confuse them. We smoothed it out by talking about the author's license to make up a story the way she wants too. The nephew didn’t like how long it was and the niece wasn't too into this story either. They both ended up giving the book 2 stars.
The interesting thing about this book is that the story of Santa is all different. Santa lives in Bohemia. Babar is on a quest to find Santa and invite him to the kingdom of elephants. He goes all over looking for him, but not the North Pole. In Bohemia he finds Santa living under ground. He is so tired that Babar invites him to his country to be in the sun and get back to health. Jean goes off script and just makes up his own stuff. It's interesting. Each country has different traditions for sure and that's interesting to see.
We read this to the kids and it did confuse them. We smoothed it out by talking about the author's license to make up a story the way she wants too. The nephew didn’t like how long it was and the niece wasn't too into this story either. They both ended up giving the book 2 stars.
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