Written and illustrated by the heroic French aviator, this tender fable speaks as sweetly and deeply as it did when I first read it as a child. Reading it aloud this time, to another child, both the little prince and the narrator send shivers of love and wonder up my spine. The pictures thrill me. A window opens into the essential mind of a child -- delicate and true as a rose, wise and wild as a fox seeking a friend.

Havi Hoffman