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    The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

    By Peter Sís

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    Peter Sís's remarkable biography The Pilot and the Little Prince celebrates the author of The Little Prince, one of the most beloved books in the world.

    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born in France in 1900, when airplanes were just being invented. Antoine dreamed of flying and grew up to be a pilot—and that was when his adventures began. He found a job delivering mail by plane, which had never been done before. He and his fellow pilots traveled to faraway places and discovered new ways of getting from one place to the next. Antoine flew over mountains and deserts. He battled winds and storms. He tried to break aviation records, and sometimes he even crashed. From his plane, Antoine looked down on the earth and was inspired to write about his life and his pilot-hero friends in memoirs and in fiction.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMay 27, 2014
    ISBN9781466869523
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    The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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    Peter Sís

    Peter Sís is an internationally acclaimed illustrator, author, and filmmaker. He was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and attended the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague and the Royal College of Art in London. Peter is a seven-time winner of The New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year, a two-time Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honoree, and has won the Society of Illustrators Gold Medal twice. Peter's books, Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei, Tibet through the Red Box, and The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain were all named Caldecott Honor books by the American Library Association. The Wall was also awarded the Robert F. Sibert Medal. In addition, Peter Sís is the first children’s book illustrator to win the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship. He was chosen to deliver the 2012 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture for the Association for Library Service to Children. Peter won the 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Award. This award is considered the most prestigious in international children's literature, given biennially by the International Board on Books for Young People. Peter Sís lives in the New York City area with his wife and children.

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    • 4/5
      Wonderful biography of Saint-Exupery, with intricate illustrations that pull the story along in a playful and engaging way.
    • 4/5
      Peter Sís is a talented illustrator who uses pictures to overcome his lack of comfort with the English language. This book, however, has a surprisingly large amount of text. This was at times a bit overwhelming for me, because as an adult I want to read everything, and it was hard to bounce back and forth between the many captions all over the illustrations and the main narrative text at the bottom of each page. However, reading as an adult helped me have the context for some of the maps that I think younger readers would lack. This might not be the easiest book for every child, but could spark some interest in further research on the World Wars, aeroplanes, or Saint-Exupéry if shared between child and adult.
    • 5/5
      A stunningly illustrated and designed picture book biography of the fascinating French pilot and author best known now for writing The Little Prince.
    • 4/5
      This beautifully illustrated biography recaps the adventurous life of Antoine De Saint-Exupery. Antoine grew up to be an experienced pilot who pushed records, made history, and fought for his country. This book is appropriate for primary readers.
    • 4/5
      fairly advanced content
    • 5/5
      In his signature style, Sis tells the tale of Antoine de Saint Exupery who became not only a pilot but an author of one of the best loved or best known children's books The Little Prince. As usual the illustrations provide allusions far beyond the text. On the second page, you can't help but notice the man in the moon from the first movie (featured in Brian Selznick's The Invention of Hugo Cabret). On another page, the illustrations alone give the differing opinions of relatives - an aunt decrying, "He's so wild!" his mother stating, "He's such an angel!" To really take in all that is in Sis's book takes close examination of text and pictures.Recommended for gifted readers, older readers. Read with The Wall in which Sis tells his own story and you'll be more inclined to take that extra time to read the illustrations. His art brings a child-like appreciation of the world (maps wherein the countries have eyes and smile at one another) and an incredibly sophisticated appreciation of the world at the same time.
    • 4/5
      Every Peter Sís book with which I am familiar seems much more like a picture book for adults than for children. Nevertheless, his books continue to be catalogued with children’s materials, perhaps because there is no category as of yet for adult picture books. In this way, adults without young children miss out on a number of worthy books.This is a biography of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, whom most modern Americans know and love only as the author of The Little Prince. But the accomplishments of Saint-Exupéry were much more extensive.He became one of the first pilots to deliver mail by air, flying in Europe and along the West African coast (where European countries had colonies). He rescued stranded pilots too, which sometimes involved dealing with hostile nomads. He helped create new mail routes to South America. On an attempt to win a prize for the fastest flight from Paris to Saigon, he and his mechanic crashed in North Africa and wandered in the desert for days before being rescued. When WWII began, he became a war pilot.When the Germans occupied France, Saint-Exupéry decided he could no longer live there, and sailed for New York. He didn’t speak English, but he could write and paint, and began working on a story about a little prince, published in April, 1943.He missed France though, and rejoined his old Army squadron in North Africa. On July 31, 1944, he took off to photograph enemy positions east of Lyon, and was never seen again. The book ends with the thought, in obvious reference to The Little Prince:"Maybe Antoine found his own glittering planet next to the stars.”This lovely book, both written and illustrated by Sís, features clever, very detailed pictures full of cultural allusions and historical data. He uses a muted palette and mixed media in two-page spreads that include watercolor, pen-and-ink, rubber stamps and scratched color on gesso. Particularly inventive are the ways he comes up with to convey “the face of the landscape,” the scary nature of Manhattan, and the German invasion of France, ingeniously shown in bleeding watercolors. Everywhere you look there is something to spot, from the famous image from filmmaker Georges Méliès’s 1902 film “A Trip to the Moon,” (featured prominently in Brian Selznick's The Invention of Hugo Cabret) to the crate of carrier pigeons used on airplanes before radios (there is a lot of information about early aviation). And repeatedly, maps are drawn into images, or images turn into maps.Discussion: Although this book has many elements that will appeal primarily to older or even adult readers, Sís does cater to his younger audience by omitting the less pleasant or complicated aspects of Saint-Exupéry’s life, such as his relationships with women, his conflicts with General Charles de Gaulle, and the eventual discovery of the remains of his plane in 2000 and their recovery in 2003. The romantic notion that Saint-Exupéry flew off to a glittering planet is much more appealing….Evaluation: The artwork of Peter Sís is not to be missed. And with this book, you can learn a great deal about a man who deserves to be known for more than his most famous book - which, however, deserves its almost universal adoration (The Little Prince has been translated into over 250 languages and dialects.)
    • 4/5
      I guess you could say I'm somewhat of a Peter Sís enthusiast by now, having read over a dozen books he's contributed to in one way or another, either solely as illustrator or as both writer and illustrator, and it's safe to say he's evolved a signature style when it comes to biographical subjects (Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei and The Tree of Life: Charles Darwin immediately spring to mind) which is uniquely his, telling the stories with words and pictures, and pictures within pictures that give the impression at first glance of complex tapestries that you can stare at for a long time to discover endless fascinating detail. For this reason, I find I can never take in his books in one short sitting, no matter how slender the volumes are as they are intellectually stimulating and pack a lot of information. Here the subject is the author of that iconic children's book The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, whom Sís introduces to us from his birth onward and who seems to have led a fascinating and adventure-packed life, devoting most of it to flying and writing in more or less equal measures. Unbeknownst to me, he had made a name for himself as a hero for his flying adventures on the one hand and as a successful author on the other well before the publication of his iconic little book about the prince from another planet, with his books based on his flying adventures, one of which became an international bestseller in 1931 and won him the Fémina Prize and which inspired the venerable French perfume house Guerlain to issue a perfume named after that novel two years later, Vol de Nuit, (known as Night Fligh to English readers). A gorgeous book, much recommended to lovers of Sís and/or Saint-Exupéry. I was already interested in reading more work by the famous author/adventurer, but I think I'll seek out his other books more actively now.