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Here's Barbapapa with his wife Barbamama. The scruffy black creature between Barbamama and Lolita is Barbabeau.
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Born in Paris in 1970 from the imagination of Annette Tison and her American husband Talus Taylor, the Barbapapas owe their name to the French idiom for cotton candy, barbe à papa, literally daddy's beard. Here's Lolita with Barbabelle. On the left, you can see Barbalib in the water.
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Finally, here's Lolita playing with Barbazoo. The blue creature is Barbabright.
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To learn more about the Barbapapa family, check out their website!
Love this...never know what the day holds or what I'll learn today! What a great gift idea for a gift for a friend's little girl!! Perfect because her Daddy is Swiss-German too!
ReplyDeleteWe use to watch this cartoons on TV in Canada. I loved them as a kid!
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The characters look very familiar. I was very young in 1970. Maybe I've seen them. Thanks for the heads up on the series.
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How cute.
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I hadn't come across the Barbapapa family before. Thanks for introducing us!
ReplyDeleteThis is new and wonderful! The illustrations look somewhat Seuss like :)
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