THE LITTLE PRINCE

What stories do these pictures tell you about the little prince’s journey from and back to Asteroid B612?

For kings the world is very simple : all men were subjects p36

To conceited men, all other men are admirers p40

Drinkers drink to forget that they are ashamed of drinking p42

the stars belong to me because nobody before me ever thought of owning them. p46

He is the only one who does not seem to me ridiculous because he is preoccupied with something other than himself. P 51

Geographers do not take note of flowers because they are ephemeral … threatened with impending death p54-55

The seventh planet he visited was the Earth. p36

I can transport you further than any ships p60

A ‘rootless’ flower of no importance p61

What a peculiar planet … and the people have no imagination. They repeat whatever you say to them. P 62

I used to think myself rich, with a flower that was unique; but all I had was a common rose. P 65

Lying down in the grass, he began to cry p65

When you have tamed me .. The corn which is golden, will remind me of you .. I shall come to love the sound of the wind in the field of corn p 68

Are there huntsmen in this other planet? p67

For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, when three o’clock strikes I’ll begin to feel happy p70

What makes a desert beautiful is that somewhere it is hiding a well. P 76

It was something other than a beverage. Its sweetness was born of tour march beneath the stars, of the pulley’s song and the exertion of my arms. It was good for the heart , like a present p79

Tonight … I shall seem to be very sick. I shall even seem to be dying. That is how it must be. Don’t come to watch that, it is not worth the trouble. P 86

He fell as gently as a tree fells p89

Sometimes I say to myself … “ ..the little prince shuts in his little flower every night under her glass dome, and he keeps a close watch on his sheep” And then I am happy. And all the stars laugh softly. P 89

Look up at the sky. Ask yourselves has the sheep eaten the flower or not? And you will see how everything changes …

And no grown-up will ever understand the significance of this!

22The Prince's Journey From and Back to Asteriod B612

THE LITTLE PRINCE