‘Will enchant little ones’ – The Times ‘Brilliant and beautiful’ – The Scotsman

Antoine De Saint-Exupery was born in 1900 in Lyon. In 1921, he began his training as a pilot. By 1926, he had became one of the pioneers of international postal flight. In 1945 he embarked on a record-breaking attempt to fly from Paris to Saigon. Nineteen hours into the flight, his plane crashed in the Sahara desert. He survived the crash but spent three days battling dehydration, limited food and hallucinations. On the fourth day, the was rescued. Louise Greig is an award-winning poet and a children's picture book author. Her debut picture book for Egmont, The Night Box, illustrated by Ashling Lindsay, has been translated into 10 languages and was nominated for the 2018 Kate Greenaway Medal as well as being shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. Her second picture book, Sweep, illustrated by Julia Sarda, was nominated for the 2019 Kate Greenaway Medal. She lives in Aberdeen.