The Dixon Gallery features a new exhibit with prints from the book Babar at the Museum. They are beautiful illustrations in which the artist (Laurent de Bruhnhoff, the son of the original author of the Babar the Elephant books) inserts elephants into classical and familiar works of art. The girls love Babar and his wife Celeste, so when I heard the museum was sponsoring "Babar Day" to introduce the exhibit, I knew we were SO THERE! They made elephant ears & construction-paper Babars, they walked in the cake-walk-style "elephant walk," they ate snacks, they colored Babar pages and they actually looked quite intently at the prints in the exhibit. We were somewhat thwarted in this last event by the mobs of people, so I promised we'd return to the museum on a less crowded day. Long Live King Babar!
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