TO LEON WERTH

I ask children to forgive me for dedicating this book to a grown-up. I have a serious excuse：this grown-up is the best friend I have in the world. I have another excuse: this grown-up can understand everything, even books for children. I have a third excuse: he lives in France where he is hungry and cold. He needs to be comforted.If all these excuses are not enough. Then I want to dedicate this book to the child whom this grown-up once was. All grown-ups were children first.(but few of them remember it). So I correct my dedication:

TO LEON WERTH WHEN HE WAS A LITTLE BOY