The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry is one of the most wonderful books I have read. A book that can be easily read by children, but not merely a children’s book.
The story details how the author meets the little prince in the desert of Sahara, and how the little prince reveals easy to understand, but still profound, bits of knowledge. The prince is a child in most ways, and speaks and thinks in ways like a child. However, from his experience he tells stories and facts that illuminate and seem somehow forgotten to the adult mind.
It is not merely a good book for positive people around the world, or for those who are somewhere between childhood and adulthood (something that has described me for the last 20 years). It is merely a good book. It is a book that will make you want to laugh and to cry, and for me the ultimate test for the quality of any art is the way it draws out emotion in you.
