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How 'The Little Prince' Landed On Long Island

Yvette Cariou O'Brien and the statue of the Little Prince she helped bring to Northport, Long Island.
Davis Dunavin
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Yvette Cariou O'Brien and the statue of the Little Prince she helped bring to Northport, Long Island.

“The Little Prince” is one of the best-selling books of all time. It was written by a Frenchman, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and translated into 300 languages since its publication in 1943. But the author didn’t write “Le Petit Prince” in his native France – he wrote it in New York. And there’s a wonderful story about a statue of the Little Prince outside a library on Long Island’s North Shore.

Davis Dunavin loves telling stories, whether on the radio or around the campfire. He started in Missouri and ended up in Connecticut, which, he'd like to point out, is the same geographic trajectory taken by Mark Twain.