The Little Prince

I read this book early middle school, most people in my class hated it and didn’t understand it. But personally I loved this book and even if it didn’t always make complete sense I just sort of understood it. I believe ever adult should read this book because it teaches people to keep their child like wonder!

Includes one of my favorite dedications: “I ask the indulgence of the children who may read this book for dedicating it to a grown-up. I have a serious reason: he is the best friend I have in the world. I have another reason: this grown-up understands everything, even books about children. I have a third reason: he lives in France where he is hungry and cold. He needs cheering up. If all these reasons are not enough, I will dedicate the book to the child from whom this grown-up grew. All grown-ups were once children — although few of them remember it.”

The idea of seeing things through children's eyes is very much like what I've seen in Sophie's World, except that The Little Prince is actually aimed for children (CMIIW, though). It's the kind of book you want to read as early as possible in your life.

Un libro pequeño con grandes enseñanzas.
Esta entrañable historia te hara recordar que “No se bien sino con el corazón, lo esencial es invisible a los ojos”.
Te enseñara que las cosas más insignificantes a menudo son las más valiosas.
Es un reencuentro con tu niño interior, que te enseñará a vivir la vida sin perder la ilusión.

o único bo de [b:Donde el corazón te lleve 2563874 Donde el corazón te lleve Susanna Tamaro https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1328263403l/2563874.SY75.jpg 91318126] é que me animou a reler el principito... e a facerllo ler a meu irmán por primeira vez... choramos os dous.

Un verdadero clásico universal. El Principito es una lectura única, que si bien puedes terminar el mismo día, llena tu mente de profundidad gracias a la ingeniosa metafórica que maneja.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry supo realizar una obra que es digerible y entendible tanto para niños pequeños como adultos, teniendo hermosas metáforas para la vida diaria que, tanto ayudan a los pequeños y los alienta a no perder su visión abierta del mundo, como incita a los mayores a re evaluar nuestro estilo de vida y a meditar en las cosas que realmente valen la pena.

“...No se ve bien sino con el corazón. Lo esencial es invisible a los ojos.”

Estaba leyendo ¿Qué pasaría sí...? En la pregunta:

P. Si un asteroide fuera muy pequeño pero súper macizo ¿podrías realmente vivir en él como en El Principito?

“Jamás os dicen: «¿Cómo es el timbre de su voz? ¿Cuáles son los juegos que prefiere? ¿Colecciona mariposas?». En cambio, os preguntan: «¿Qué edad tiene? ¿Cuántos hermanos tiene? ¿Cuánto pesa? ¿Cuánto gana su padre? ». Sólo entonces creen conocerle. Si decís a las personas grandes: «He visto una hermosa casa de ladrillos rojos con geranios en las ventanas y palomas en el techo...», no acertarán a imaginársela casa. Es necesario decirles: «He visto una casa de cien mil francos». Entonces exclaman: «¡Qué hermosa es! ».”

“Sin duda. Cuando encuentras un diamante que no es de nadie, es tuyo. Cuando encuentras una isla que no es de nadie, es tuya. Cuando eres el primero en tener una idea, la haces patentar: es tuya. Yo poseo las estrellas porque jamás nadie antes soñó con poseerlas.”

“...Si los dos mil millones de habitantes que pueblan la Tierra se tuviesen de pie y un poco apretados, como un mitin, podrían alojarse fácilmente en una plaza pública de veinte millas de largo por veinte millas de ancho. Podría amontonarse a la humanidad sobre la más mínima islita del Pacífico.Las personas grandes, sin duda, no os creerán. Se imaginan que ocupan mucho lugar. Se sienten importantes, como los baobabs. Les aconsejaréis, pues, que hagan el cálculo. Les agradará porque adoran las cifras. Pero no perdáis el tiempo en esta penitencia. Es inútil. Tened confianza en mí.”

One of my childhood favorites. I don't think a review is really necessary simply because the story is familiar to so many people. Sometimes books don't need reviews.

A sweet easy read.

This is the book to read for every dreamer, who hasn't lost, or wants back the child in him.

I read this simultaneously in English and French. In France. A happy experience. Love this book.

A pilot crashes his plane in the desert, and who unexpectedly arrives to keep him company while he repairs his plane? A little prince from a faraway planet. The Little Prince tells the pilot stories of his home planet where he cares for a Rose and tries to keep down the baobab trees and watches up to forty-four sunsets in a single day.

The Little Prince tells the pilot of his visits to other planets where he meets a king who commands everything on a planet where there is nothing; a very vain man who wants to be admired; a drunkard who drinks to forget that he is ashamed of drinking; a businessman who says he owns the star and is a very serious person; a lamplighter who is following orders to light his lamp mornings and turn out his lamp after dark, but whose planet turns so fast that he must light and turn it out every minute; a geographer who is waiting for explorers to bring him information about the geography of his planet before he makes note of it; and then Earth.

It was on Earth that the Little Prince met a snake, no bigger than a king's finger, and yet more powerful, able to send anyone touched by the snake back to the land from which he came. It was on Earth that the Little Prince saw a blossoming rose garden with thousands of flowers, and realized that his Flower was not unique.

It was on Earth that the Little Prince met the fox who asked the Little Prince to tame him—“For me you're only a little boy just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you have no need of me either. For you I'm only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, we'll need each other. You'll be the only boy in the world for me. I'll be the only fox in the world for you...“

Now the Little Prince could look at the thousands of roses and know that his rose was special: “...my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I watered. Since she's the one I put under glass. Since she's the one I sheltered behind a screen....Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.”

“It was the fox who revealed to the Little Prince a secret: “One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.”

I was completely touched by this book it made me laugh, think, and cry. Take the journey though different lands with the little prince. I was listening to the audio book on a dark and starry night it was just happenstance that this was the perfect setting to listen to it. The performance was great and it included subtle sound effects that were effective to the mood. I strongly suggest the audio book but this story is without a doubt a must read on a starry night.

Hermano que hermoso cuentoo 😭😭, es un apapacho al corazón y a la vez un golpe a el mismo 😪, me fascinó la redacción, tiene bien merecido su puesto como clásico

Libro corto, poético, con dobles lecturas que te deja pensando en las cosas un poco más allá.

Releerlo cuando sos más grande es una de las mejores cosas! 🌌❤️

A crazy, funny, deep book. There were so many parts that I read and reread, to fully absorb the meaning. I loved how the author was poking fun at humans and their strange ways. The chapter about the businessman was so dangerously close to the truth, omg! So was the chapter about the trains. A quick read too.    “It is only with one's heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.”

Such a comfy read. Chắc là cuốn sách Manh thích nhất, đọc đi đọc lại hoài không chán. Just read this excerpt from the book:

“

You’re beautiful, but you’re empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you –the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she’s more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: […..]

Because she is MY rose.”

“

tell me why the love this little prince had for his rose fulfilled me more than any of the smutty books I have read this year ever could...

this is such a cute, short & imaginative read + I just really like the ideas proposed in this book with his cute lil planet and his cute lil friends and his cute lil rose and his cute lil laughing stars thing. so cute. the narrator's cute lil drawings were nice too.

faith in humanity: restored.
i want more

The Little Prince is a novella written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and published in April 1943. It is the story of a child, the little prince, who travels the universe gaining wisdom. On the surface it's a simple story, but this little prince is as wise as they come and his messages of compassion and goodwill continue to endure.

From the book, we can take away seven timeless life lessons:

1. Don't be too fond of numbers
2. Look after the planet
3. Don't judge others by their words, but by what they do
4. Relationships make life worth living
5. The important things in life you cannot see with your eyes, only with your heart
6. It is the time you give to something that makes it precious
7. And finally, remember to look up at the stars

I enjoyed the story and messages in my first read of 2024.

I forgot how heartbreaking this book is, so beautiful and full of childhood wonder

I was first asked to read this book when I was 10 years old and at the time I thought it was the most meaningless things I have ever seen.

Through the course of my life after that I have re-read this book a multitude of times and each time it seems to make more and more sense...

I dedicated the last day of the worst year of my life to reading the Little Prince once more and it brought me peace and even more understanding.

I will forever be grateful to the author for writing it and hope he found his little planet with his little rose at the end.

I've been on a mission to read all the classics and I am so happy I decided to take the time to read this. This was such a fantastic and nostalgic read.

Finally got to reading it in French and it's so much better in its original language

Probably since I was born almost my entire family told me to read this book, so now at 23 I read the whole thing for the first time, they couldn't have been more right.

10/10

This book was not for me. Maybe it's the audiobooks format but I didn't digest a single think that happened. Something about an engine and a lamp? maybe a plane?

I imagine this is a brilliant children's classic so take my review with a grain of salt. It just wasn't very engaging to me