THE LITTLE PRINCE-Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Antoine De Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, Egmont UK Limited 2009, 91pp, ISBN 978-0-7497-0723-1

Age:13 & up
Rating: 5/5

This is a poetic and exciting encounter a pilot (the narrator), who his plane crashes in the Sahara desert, and the Little Prince, a peculiar character who has also crashed onto Earth from an unknown planet. During conversation the two get to know each other's world, understand what they did not understand so far about their lives and themselves, and draw conclusions about human nature, the weaknesses of human beings but also to grow their spirits.

“All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems… But all these stars are silent. You – You alone will have stars as no one else has them”.

This exactly says what this book is to me. The book stays the same book as the stars; also the story remains the same, but …..The meaning is never staying the same.

The first time I was read this book, I was 14 years old, since then I read the book at least ten times and each time I understood him differently.

I must admit that I love this book, for me is much more than a book or a classic, it’s a guide for life it takes me back to the days of innocence, he made me connect to the child within me. The Little Prince is a journey through time to your childhood, to the moments when imagination used to work, but the system knocking you over the head with a hammer and told you - Oh boy you can’t see a snake swallowing an elephant instead of just a hat!!!    Don’t try to be creative; what you see is what you get!

What the writer is tried to do is to tell the adults reader: read the book as a child, but armed with the insights of adults, go back and look for the really significant things in life, such as friendship, love, kindness. And not what appears to be important on the surface, but rotten on the inside, like the status and the money.

“People where you live grow five thousand roses in one garden, yet they don’t find what they’re looking for… and yet what they’re looking for could be found in a single rose."