Howard's updated translation (originally published in 2000) of the 1943 classic is reissued here in a sixtieth-anniversary slipcased edition. From HORN BOOK Fall 2003, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

This graphic novel brings the classic fable to life with a new character: the pilot (a stand-in lor the original author) who crash-lands on the Prince's planet. Here we see Saint-Exupéry's plane disappear over the waves, as it did in real life. "The Prince's protracted nighttime goodbye . . . is newly touching, and harrowing," Dan Kois wrote in his review.

YA-This new translation into "modern" English brings a classic tale into sharper focus for today's teens without sacrificing the beauty and simplicity of the author's writing, and the "restored" artwork has all the charm of the original drawings. What appears to be a simple tale of two lost souls-one, a pilot marooned in the desert next to his ditched plane; the other, a minuscule prince in self-imposed exile from an asteroid so small that he can watch the sunset 44 times a day-reveals itself as something far more complex. What appears to be a fairy tale for children opens like the petals of the Little Prince's flower into a fantasy that has lessons for all of us.-Molly Connally, Kings Park Library, Fairfax County, VA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.