The best of the Babar books! I love the famous paintings with elephants dubbed in. ( )

Babar and Celeste decide to turn the abandoned train station into an art museum to store the art treasures accumulated through their travels. And what a collection! We see many art treasures depicted in the book, including Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Rousseau's The Dream. However, instead of humans populating the paintings and sculptures, we see elephants! The familiar soft and friendly elephants readers have grown to know and love walk us through the transformation of the art museum followed by a stroll through the collection. The story mimics the Parisian's train station turned world famous art museum called the Musee D'Orsay. The children's questions about museum going will help prepare young ones for their first museum experience. The children are simply told to, "look, not touch, and tell me what you see." The only negative occurs when the mother hushes the tutor, who is only trying to relate some context to the paintings. The book would work wonderfully as a precursor to a museum visit, with readers relaying to young listeners that museum going should be a pleasant dose of both the educational and the recreational. Recommended for young elementary students and preschoolers. ( )

"Summary: Babar and Celest convert Celesteville's old railroad station into an art museum containing famous masterworks featuring elephants." I love the elephant artwork! ( )