Abstract
The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery Mahaveer Publishers, 2009, PB, 128pp, £9.99 978-8183520676 I don’t feel grown-up yet. People assume I must be grown-up because I have the outward adult male appearances of a job, children, a house, and a beard. But deep down, adulthood is always ahead of me, not quite for now, and if I’m honest, I’m not sure I ever want to reach that point. Perhaps that’s why I love The Little Prince so much. Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s first-person narrator gives us just enough background that we see him trying to suppress his attraction to a child-like view of the world, and learning to talk of adult ‘matters of consequence’. Then he crash-lands his aeroplane in the desert, and out of nowhere meets the little prince. What follows …
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