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　　1900年，《小王子》的作者安東尼．聖修伯里在法國里昂誕生，彼時正好是飛機剛剛發明的年代。身處於航空發展的核心國家，安東尼從小就熱衷飛行，人生目標便是要成為一名飛行員，長大後的他找到了一份從來沒人做過的工作──開飛機運送郵件。他和飛行員夥伴們曾經到過非常、非常遠的地方，也很享受每一趟新旅程所帶來的意外驚喜。

　　曾獲得紐伯瑞金牌獎、凱迪克大獎榮譽獎等多項殊榮的捷克插畫家彼德．席斯，透過能撫慰人心的溫暖筆觸創作出這本《The Pilot and the Little Prince》。故事從安東尼呱呱墜地開始述說他短暫燦爛的人生，描繪他如何飛越高山與荒漠、戰勝暴雨與狂風，甚至為了突破飛行記錄差點失事的經過。文字與圖畫相輔相成，完美地捕捉了小男孩天馬行空的想像與戰爭千鈞一髮的片段，很適合對世界充滿好奇的大小朋友一起閱讀。

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