# The Little Prince

- Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Translator: Richard Howard
- Original title (French): Le Petit Prince
- First published: 1943
- Publisher: Mariner Books
- This edition: 2000
- ISBN: 9780156012195
- Shelf: Tonight's Classic (one a night, from this pool); World Classics

## Card

A pilot stranded in the desert meets a small boy who says he has come from a tiny planet far away.  
Simple drawings and short chapters carry a gentle sadness, and its questions about grown-ups and love read differently at every age.  
For a night under a sky full of stars.  

## About this book

A pilot whose plane has broken down in the Sahara is asked by a strange little boy to draw him a sheep. Over the following days the boy tells of his home asteroid, the rose he left there, and the odd grown-ups he met on other planets, among them a king, a businessman and a lamplighter. A fox teaches him about friendship and responsibility. Written and illustrated by the author, it is short enough to read in one evening.

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