MY FAVOURITE BOOK

THE LITTLE PRINCE

• Published in 1943
• Most read and most translated book in French language
• Voted the best book of the 20th century in France
• Translated into more than 250 languages and dialects
• Selling nearly two million copies annually.

ANTOINE DE SAINT - EXUPÉRY

• French writer, poet and pioneering aviator born on 29th June.
• Crashed in the Sahara desert on December 30th, 1935.
• Few grapes, coffee, an orange, wine and water.
• Stopped sweating and were found by a Bedouin.
• Died on 31st July 1944 over the Mediterranean.

INSPARATION

• Life experience.
• Rose - wife Consuelo.
• Planet - consuelo's home country.
• The fox - Silvia Hamilton Reinhardt.
• Baobabs - nazism.

THE STORY'S ESSENCE

• "It is the time you have lost for your rose that makes your rose so important".
• "You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed".
• "One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye".