Wikipedia Trial from The Little Mermaid (book) to Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I started with the Little Mermaid because I just read the story by Hans Christian Anderson for one of my reading posts. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Mermaid
The Little Mermaid. 
I read through the entire article, then came upon a criticism of the story by P.L. Travers, who said that the end of the story scares children into behaving well, because it says that if they are naughty then the "daughters of the air" have to wait one more day before they get a soul.  I thought that this was a good point, so I decided to click on the "Mary Poppins" link, because I wanted to compare Travers story to Anderson's. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Poppins
Mary Poppins
Looking through the Mary Poppins page, under the "see also " heading, I saw that P.L. Travers praised a story called The Little Prince.  This story sounded familiar, So I decided to click on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince
The Little Prince
Reading through this page, I noticed at one point that "pioneering American aviator" Charles Lindbergh did not get a link to a page in the article, but his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, did.  This was intriguing, so I decided to click on her name to see what noteworthy things she accomplished in her life. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Morrow_Lindbergh
Anne Lindbergh
Anne Lindbergh was an author and aviator.  Apparently she had a secret affair with the author of The Little Prince, which was not mentioned in the Little Prince article.  She is also in the National Aviation Hall of Fame and the National Women's Hall of Fame.

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Page 127 of Andersen's fairy tales, Source: Wikimedia Commons

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