the little prince colouring book antoine de saint exupéry

RELATED: Review: Keep You Close - Lucie WhitehouseĪ profound and poetic tale, the story is a philosophical one and through its social criticism of the adult world, reminds its readers that we were all children once. With no plans for the rest of the morning, hot drink in hand, I settled myself down to read, the air infused with coffee beans and the hum of idle chatter.īeloved by many since its first publication in 1943, Antoine De Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince is an enchanting fable imbued with life lessons that tells the tale of a little boy who leaves the safety of his own tiny planet to travel the universe, learning the intricacies of adult behaviour through a series of unexpected encounters.

I had just finished The Master and Margarita when I was queuing for a coffee at my local bookshop in Bondi, Gertrude & Alice, and I saw they had the Penguin Classic edition was on sale. While I’m sure I may have read it as a child, as an adult it’s always been a book that had never quite made it to my list of reading priorities until a friend recommended it recently. The Little Prince was one of the said unread books until a fortnight ago. And yet, and yet, there are still many hundred of books I fear I may never get around to reading, unless given a particular reason to do so. I too have read my first book by an Indonesian author, and a couple of contemporary novels I’ve had my eye on for a while. I finished thirteen books in January more in the months that have since passed. Thus far, 2019 has been a good year for books: I read my first Agatha Christie, I read a Russian classic hailed by many as the best book of the twentieth century.

I often wonder if I’ll ever reach a point in my reading life where I’m satisfied by the amount of books I’ve read where I can say with confidence that I’ve read the classics and the critically acclaimed that have long haunted my to-be-read pile.

The little prince colouring book antoine de saint exupéry