Michael Morpurgo: why don't we love The Little Prince?

I wondered, as I was translating Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s glorious fable – about a desert encounter between a pilot whose plane has crashed and a little prince, visiting earth from a distant planet – whether there is any book in the English language that is as familiar to so many of us, as universally beloved, as The Little Prince is to the French.

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Momo celebrating time to read: The Little Prince adapted by Louise Greig illustrated by Sarah Massini

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