Written in 1943 by Antoine de Saint-Exupery during his exile to the United Sates, The Little Prince is a fairy tale for adults, offering everyone a touch of fantasy and poetry. Saint Exupery took much from his own life experience as a pilot, including crash landings in a desert and his years living on an oasis in the Sahara Desert.

The narrator of the story, a pilot like the author, finds himself stranded in the middle of a desert and meets a little prince from an asteroid. Frustrated with a beautiful but grumpy rose, the prince sets off on a journey. After a long journey, he arrives on Earth and meets a fox. After the fox teaches the prince that it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, the little prince realizes the true value of the rose. In the portrayal of characters that the little prince meets on his travels, the author describes the preciousness of life that adults can’t see and tend to forget as they get older.

The Little Prince reflects Saint-Exupery’s thesis that the true meaning of life can be found in the links that we make with others, embellished with the author’s beautiful illustrations, giving the story a poetic and warmly humanistic tone.