Book review : THE LITTLE PRINCE by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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On the first look, the Little Prince will appear as a child's book from its packaging, sound, and treatment and is also very often sold as one. This book is also for adults, however. Adults must be reminded of homilies and simple truths, rather than children, about what matters and what doesn't matter in life. Kids are born with this knowledge in any situation.

The Little Prince — Le Petit Prince, originally in French — is a wonderful story about the opportunity to encounter an aviator and the young boy from another world to visit the earth. The airman is crashing into the desert of the Sahara and destroying his plane so much so that he can no longer fly. The airman ponders his difficulty, leaving it with little food and water. When he fears, a young and serious blond boy approaches him. Both become friends.

The kid reveals that he's a very blue royalty planet, a prince. The prince prevents the growth of bad seeds on his world, ensuring that the baobab trees never overrun them. On his world, he's content, until the breeze sows a seed, and a mysterious rose springs forth. The prince loses the flower's head and heart, which isn't vain and tormenting unlike all the other lovely beasts on Earth and elsewhere. Then he caught the rose one day in a lie, and concluded that he could no longer trust her. He decided to leave his planet in love and find the real meaning of life to remedy his solitude.

Ever since, the prince has explored and told of his many experiences six different worlds. In his adventure, the Prince encountered adults for the first time. The book focuses on the innocence and wisdom of childrenhip, which starts to become "intelligence" and craftsmanship when we grow up. The Prince stresses that 'grown-ups' confuse the world more than it should be. A giant little prince's giant intelligence! Finally, the Prince made it to Earth where he stumbled, inter alia, over a rose-garden, which was shocking and irritating – he assumed that his rose was special.

If I've never found a book 'undownloaded,' that can be also read directly in one, fired – it is the Little Prince of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The Little Prince and the personages mentioned therein are something extremely sweet, sorrowful, mystic — paradoxical, also true.

If in your life there's a little prince who can use a little trust shot, I recommend that you give that book to him. The child would enjoy it for life and may want to continue with her children – that's how timely the story is. Or read it aloud and research the effect with your kids. At every turn of life, the cocky little prince helps you.

In a way, in each of us, the book talks to the boy. He speaks the language of a child, follows their language, feels their sorrow and isolation and eventually triumphs in the quest for poetry. The word "Little" is a clever game – it allows us to join and explore the world of kids through their eyes. Then in the usual, boring stuff, we find pleasure that we are always adults to set aside. Indeed, it's easy to get so wrapped up in the meaningless rush of an everyday life that we quickly forget that life can do much more than seek jobs, think about meetings, appointments or the next rise in wages.