My first world classic - The Little Prince

Author: (French) Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Features: This small book written in 1938 may not be a masterpiece due to its brevity, but it is always remembered and reread every few years, a testament to its timeless charm. Over 50 years since The Little Prince was published, this is the first colored edition in China. The soft-colored interior illustrations create a visible world of the Little Prince, allowing us to become little children like him and seek the innocence and emotions we have lost or have already lost. With his clear, water-like gaze, he washes away the dust from our hearts. A simple fairy tale, it lacks extraordinary plots or earth-shattering feats, unfolding in a plain narrative. Yet since its publication in 1943, it has been translated into 42 languages, reprinted multiple times, and remains enduringly popular, selected for many textbooks. Its publication and reading volume rank second only to the Bible. Reading The Little Prince has long been regarded as a required cultural credit, no longer limited by age—people of nine to ninety-nine can all experience the profound tenderness and philosophy in the book in their own way. A book that you can read with your child. It tells the story of a pilot stranded in the Sahara Desert after a plane crash, who encounters a little extraterrestrial: The Little Prince is a melancholic little figure from a very small, very small planet where everything is just fine, small, and small. The Little Prince is easily sad, his small life full of tenderness and sensitivity. Such an endearing Little Prince met the author in the Sahara Desert. Through their gradual sharing of hearts, we follow the Little Prince in crying and laughing, becoming children again with the author, and rediscovering the innocence and emotions we have lost.