I love to share kids books and the wonderful illustrations on twitter. I’ll try to do that soon! by julesĭear Da Poppins: We did it! Thanks to my husband, my personal tech support, those social media share buttons are now at the close of every post. Thanks for the feedback! I have been meaning to add those social media links to this site.
(I can still share, if it’s okay, this just means that lazy me has to generate the link myself) by Dapoppins I wish you had a little linky here so I could just click and tweet and share your posts from this blog rather than from Bookpage. You are constantly alerting me to new books to keep my eye out for, (or old books I missed) this book by Peter Sis being one of them. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher.Ĥ comments to “ The Pilot and the Little Prince” Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, New York. THE PILOT AND THE LITTLE PRINCE: THE LIFE OF ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY. He took off from Borgo, Corsica, to photograph enemy positions east of Lyon. He asked for flights that would send him over France, where his family was living.
“Antoine joined his old squadron in North Africa. As Antoine sailed across the ocean under the night sky he knew he had lost his friend and his country.” He fled to Lisbon to board a ship for New York and learned that his friend Guillaumet had been shot down. Back in France he realized he could not live under German occupation. Antoine’s unite was ordered to North Africa and his service was over. They invaded France on May 10, 1940, and the country fell in just thirty-eight days. “From the skies, Antoine watched the fires, smoke, and destruction the Germans left in their wake as they swooped down from the north. (Click to enlarge and see in more detail)
He had become a famous pilot and a celebrated writer. The airline he helped build went out of business, so he looked for new opportunities in life. That review is here, and today I’m following up with some art from the book. I reviewed Peter Sís’ newest book, The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Farrar Straus Giroux, May 2014), over at BookPage. I’ve seen a small handful of picture books thus far here in 2014 that I think are truly exceptional, and today’s featured picture book is one of those. “Long ago in France, at the turn of the last century,Ī little boy was born to be an adventurer.”
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