
Written and illustrated by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A stranded pilot meets a mysterious boy who has traveled from a tiny planet.
The original French text of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's classic, with the author's own watercolors. A pilot whose plane has crashed in the Sahara meets the little prince, who has left his asteroid and his beloved rose to visit other worlds, and who learns from a fox that what is essential is invisible to the eye.
In 2000 Harcourt proudly reissued Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's masterpiece, The Little Prince, in a sparkling new format. Newly translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Howard, this timeless classic was embraced by critics and readers across the country for its purity and beauty of expression. And Saint-Exupéry's beloved artwork was restored and remastered to present his work in its original and vibrant colors. Now Harcourt is issuing uniform full-color foreign language editions. The restored artwork glows like never before. These affordable and beautiful editions are sure to delight an entire new generation of readers, students, children, and adults for whom Saint-Exupéry's story will open the door to a new understanding of life.
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