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No such age-appropriate qualms attend the illustrated reworking of a more recent classic, Antoine de Saint-Exup é ry's strangely memorable 1943 fable, "The Little Prince" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 112 pages, $19).

Highbrow Meghan Cox Gurdon 2010

By happy coincidence, Saint-Exup é ry not only was a French aviator but also resembled one from central casting — he looks just right when we meet him, in these pages, sitting in the cockpit of his plane with a flying helmet on his head and a cigarette in the corner of his mouth.

Highbrow Meghan Cox Gurdon 2010

Surprise attack — seeing the enemy before he sees you — is still the killing edge, which is why Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the fighter pilot and author, described dogfighting as less combat than “murder.”

The Last Ace 2009

Stacy Schiff, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of three highly praised biographies -- of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Véra Nabokov and Benjamin Franklin -- has dug through the earliest sources on Cleopatra, sorted through myth and misapprehension, tossed out the chaff of gossip, and delivered up a spirited life.

Stacy Schiff's new biography of "Cleopatra," reviewed by Maria Arana Marie Arana 2010

As Saint-Exupéry says, "If you want someone to explore, don't drum up people to build ships -- just show them the immensity of the sea."

Dr. Michele Hernandez: Tiger Kids With Heart: What the Ivies Want Dr. Michele Hernandez 2011

As Saint-Exupéry says, "If you want someone to explore, don't drum up people to build ships -- just show them the immensity of the sea."

Dr. Michele Hernandez: Tiger Kids With Heart: What the Ivies Want Dr. Michele Hernandez 2011

Gone are the art-naïf watercolors that Saint-Exupéry inked for the original, as is most of the text.

Book Review Roundup: Movie Flops, Reality TV And The Constitution The Huffington Post 2010

Gone are the art-naïf watercolors that Saint-Exupéry inked for the original, as is most of the text.

Book Review Roundup: Movie Flops, Reality TV And The Constitution The Huffington Post 2010

Surprise attack — seeing the enemy before he sees you — is still the killing edge, which is why Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the fighter pilot and author, described dogfighting as less combat than “murder.”

The Last Ace 2009

As Saint-Exupéry says, "If you want someone to explore, don't drum up people to build ships -- just show them the immensity of the sea."

Dr. Michele Hernandez: Tiger Kids With Heart: What the Ivies Want Dr. Michele Hernandez 2011