Fern answers “For what age is this most suitable?”

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For what age is this most suitable?

Fern It's an all ages book. 2 year olds can read it, as long as they learn how to really young, avoid underestimating or overstimating small children, they…moreIt's an all ages book. 2 year olds can read it, as long as they learn how to really young, avoid underestimating or overstimating small children, they are just people, they aren't subhumans as many people pass those ages see them. Comprehension and emotional maturity are not about age, each human is different, development stages can give a general sketching of how people mature but it varies and can give a lot of surprises. It's not that it *has to be re-read at different life stages, it's a book that draws you in, it's such a tender, empathic, compassionate, passionate, visceral, hopeful, moving and sociological reading that one wants to come back to it. Stimulating empathy is a much needed aid in the human world, the younger the better, so much it raptures, entrances and aches to be alive. If more humans become sentient and healthy the world would be spared of so much cruelty.(less)

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by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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