Wind, Sand and Stars is a series of adventures, Saint-Exup éry’s recounting of his time working as a mail carrier for Aeropostale. (“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,” explains the Prince, “what is essential is invisible to the eye.”) It also feels, in some ways, like a cozier counterbalance to his earlier nonfiction masterpiece Wind, Sand and Stars, first published in 1939, and a book that’ll make you behave more boldly for at least day or two after you finish it, I promise. The Little Prince is lovely, full of gentle allegory and cozy metaphysics. Saint-Exup éry wrote plenty in addition to The Little Prince, most of it for adults - though it takes a heart of grimy stone for readers of any age not to be moved by the plight of the homesick young royal.īut here I cast a slight aspersion in the direction of asteroid B-612. Its author, the perfectly named Frenchman Antoine de Saint-Exup éry, was an extraordinary, dashing figure: a commercial pilot who, upon the outbreak of the World War II, began flying reconnaissance missions for the French Air Force. The 1943 book on which the film is based is, of course, a beloved treasure of children’s literature. We admirers of bittersweet French whimsy were heartened yesterday to see the first full-length English trailer for a new film adaptation of The Little Prince.

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