A sweet example of information made accessible – A Little History of the World (1935) by E.H. Gombrich, who explains world history in the same spirit as The Little Prince. As explained by his granddaughter in the preface: “He was… feeling a little impatient with academic writing, having waded through so much of it in the course of his studies, and was convinced that it should be perfectly possible to explain most things to an intelligent child without jargon or pompous language.”