Academician@lemm.eetoWorld News@lemmy.world•Laurent de Brunhoff, ‘Babar’ heir and author, dies at age 98English
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8 months agoI’ll admit I loved those books as a kid. I was obsessed for a while with getting a pith helmet so I could go on adventures like Babar.
As an adult…well, the colonialist and racist overtones are no longer lost on me, and my son doesn’t own any of the books. But part of me misses my innocent wonder reading them.
Interestingly, this appears to only work when you’re logged in. I was logged out and saw lots of horror games, and was confused.