Meet the original Boy Who Fell to Earth. Stranded in the Sahara Desert, an aircraft pilot meets a strange little boy who tells him of his journey from another world.
The Little Prince, by the French writer, illustrator, and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery, was written and published during the Second World War, to immediate acclaim, and its classic status has been embraced ever since. Whether as a children's fairy tale or an existentialist fable, religious parable or political allegory, the "secret treasure" of its complex simplicity has only unfolded further truths over the years, like the petals of the precious flower of friendship it celebrates.
Vividly realized here, for yet another new generation, by the award-winning graphic novelist Joann Sfar, this stunning adaptation celebrates the 80th anniversary of its French edition, and confirms its wisdom of ages: that life (and love) can be hard; that "grown-ups are very strange"; and that our precious planet is intrinsic with our universal Nature. De Saint-Exupery's aircraft disappeared in the wartime skies over the Mediterranean in July 1944, and his death has remained a mystery ever since. "The only reason to speak in riddles," he wrote, in his prophetic masterpiece, "is to solve them."
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Interest Age: From 8 to 12 years
Illustrationen
Colour illustrations throughout
Maße
Höhe: 260 mm
Breite: 190 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-914224-46-1 (9781914224461)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Antoine de Saint-Exupery was born into an aristocratic family in Lyon, France, in 1900, shortly before the first powered flight by the Wright Brothers. He grew up to be inspired by this new technology, and trained and worked as a commercial pilot in the 1920s, writing a series of stories and novels on the subject, including the best-selling Vol de Nuit (Night Flight, 1931). At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, he served in the French Air Force, but after the German invasion and Occupation in 1940 lived in exile in the United States, where he wrote his memoir of combat, Pilote de Guerre (Flight to Arras, 1942), as well as his immortal fable The Little Prince, but later returned to serve in the Free French Air Force. His plane disappeared in a reconnaissance mission in July 1944.
Joann Sfar is a prolific and celebrated French graphic novelist and filmmaker. Born in Nice, and later enrolling at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he published his first book in 1994, and has since been credited as playing a key role in the new wave of Franco-Belgian comics. The co-creator of the cult series Donjon, and the author of such other serials as Grand Vampire (2001-5) and The Rabbi's Cat (2002-15), his live-action film about Serge Gainsbourg, which he both wrote and directed, was released in 2010 to wide acclaim. Joan Sfar was named Commandeur in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2024, and continues to live and work in France.
