Information about the author
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, born in Lyon on 29 June 1900, was a French writer and aviator. In 1921, he began his military service and trained as a pilot. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he joined the French Air Force, flying reconnaissance missions. Later, he joined the Free French Forces, but while flying a mission in the Rhone Valley on 31 July 1944, he disappeared and was never seen again. It was assumed that he was shot down over the Mediterranean. An unidentifiable body wearing French colors was found several days later and buried in Carqueiranne that September.

Blurb
After crash-landing in the Sahara Desert, a pilot encounters a little prince who is visiting Earth from his own planet. Their strange and moving meeting illuminates for the aviator many of life's universal truths, as he comes to learn what it means to be.