Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry (1900-1944), born in Lyons, France, is one
of the world's best loved and widest read writers. His timeless
fable, The Little Prince, has sold more than 100 million copies and
has been translated into nearly every language. His pilot's memoir,
Wind, Sand and Stars, won the National Book Award and was named the
#1 adventure book of all time by Outside magazine and was ranked #3
on National Geographic Adventure's list of all-time-best
exploration books. His other books include Night Flight; Southern
Mail; and Airman's Odyssey. A pilot at twenty-six, he was a pioneer
of commercial aviation and flew in the Spanish Civil War and World
War II. In 1944, while flying a reconnaissance mission for his
French air squadron, he disappeared over the Mediterranean.
Stacy Schiff is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of several
bestselling biographies and historical works including, most
recently, The Witches: Salem, 1692. In 2018 she was named a
Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry
of Culture. Awarded a 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the
American Academy of Arts and Letters, she was inducted into the
Academy in 2019. Schiff has written for The New Yorker, The New
York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, The
Times Literary Supplement, and The Los Angeles Times, among many
other publications. She lives in New York City.
Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry (1900-1944), born in Lyons, France, is one
of the world's best loved and widest read writers. His timeless
fable, The Little Prince, has sold more than 100 million copies and
has been translated into nearly every language. His pilot's memoir,
Wind, Sand and Stars, won the National Book Award and was named the
#1 adventure book of all time by Outside magazine and was ranked #3
on National Geographic Adventure's list of all-time-best
exploration books. His other books include Night Flight; Southern
Mail; and Airman's Odyssey. A pilot at twenty-six, he was a pioneer
of commercial aviation and flew in the Spanish Civil War and World
War II. In 1944, while flying a reconnaissance mission for his
French air squadron, he disappeared over the Mediterranean.
Stacy Schiff is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of several
bestselling biographies and historical works including, most
recently, The Witches: Salem, 1692. In 2018 she was named a
Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry
of Culture. Awarded a 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the
American Academy of Arts and Letters, she was inducted into the
Academy in 2019. Schiff has written for The New Yorker, The New
York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, The
Times Literary Supplement, and The Los Angeles Times, among many
other publications. She lives in New York City.
Young Osment (The Sixth Sense; Pay It Forward) again proves his mettle as an actor, giving voice to the Little Prince in this crisp, full-cast production of the literary classic. He approaches the role with a gentleness and sensitivity that touches the heart and never sounds maudlin. As the pilot whose plane has crashed in the Sahara, Gere plays it low-key, creating a perfect partner for Osment's interplanetary-traveling, wise-beyond-his-years prince. Gere expresses just the right mix of amusement and bewilderment as the prince interrupts the pilot's efforts to repair his plane with a request that he draw a sheep. The adept performances capture the timeless nature of Saint-Exup‚ry's fable about how a child sees the important things in life much more clearly than many adults do. All ages. (Dec.) FYI: Last year marked the 100th anniversary of Saint-Exup‚ry's birth. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
YA-This new translation into "modern" English brings a classic tale into sharper focus for today's teens without sacrificing the beauty and simplicity of the author's writing, and the "restored" artwork has all the charm of the original drawings. What appears to be a simple tale of two lost souls-one, a pilot marooned in the desert next to his ditched plane; the other, a minuscule prince in self-imposed exile from an asteroid so small that he can watch the sunset 44 times a day-reveals itself as something far more complex. What appears to be a fairy tale for children opens like the petals of the Little Prince's flower into a fantasy that has lessons for all of us.-Molly Connally, Kings Park Library, Fairfax County, VA Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
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