"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the
heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
One day, the author reminisces, when his plane was forced down in the
Sahara, a thousand miles from help, he encountered a most extraordinary
small person. "If you please," said the stranger, "draw me a sheep."
And thus begins the remarkable history of the Little Prince.
The Little Prince lived alone on a tiny planet no larger than a house.
He owned three volcanoes, two active and one extinct. He also owned a
flower, unlike any flower in all the galaxy, of great beauty and of
inordinate pride. It was this pride that ruined the serenity of the
Little Prince's world and started him on the interplanetary travels that
brought him to Earth, where he learned, finally, from a fox, the secret
of what is really important in life.
There are a few stories that in some way, in some degree, change the
world forever for their readers. This is one.