Fleurus Books

L'enfant doit détacher les silhouettes de Ninon. Il va jouer avec elles et s'inventer des histoires en les déplaçant dans le livre, qui en se dépliant devient un décor.

This strange and lovely parable, written as much for adults as for children, and beautifully illustrated by the author, has become a classic of our time. The narrator, an air pilot, tells how, having made a forced landing in the Sahara Desert, he meets the little prince. The wise and enchanting stories the prince tells about the planet where he lives with three volcanoes and a haught flower, about the other planets and their rulers, and about his fight with the bad seeds, make him an entrancing, unforgettable character. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was a novelist and professional air pilot. He wrote <i>The Little Prince</i> a year before his death in 1944.