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"Le Petit Prince", "The Little Prince" ...
It's a book for adults, really, I think ...
but with the appearance of being a children's book.
And it's very clever, in that way,
because the substance of the book, in a way, is in that mindset, the mindset of a child.
And the author succeeds in expressing that, in a way .... by pretending that he's writing for children.
Now, that's not to say that children wouldn't enjoy this, there are certain devices in the book that would make children laugh, there's drama,
he doesn't stay with any one event too long, so there's substance there for a very good children's book.
But a lot of what de Saint-Exupéry is saying, he's saying to the adult.
Now, in my opinion, it's a huge achievement, in that on the one hand he can write a book which appears to be a children's book but at the same time, he's saying things to the adult.