The Little Prince

Book excerpt: 'You only see clearly with your heart. The most important things are invisible to the eyes.' A pilot who has crash-landed in the Sahara Desert wakes up the next morning to a strange voice. 'Please ... will you draw me a sheep!' it says. The voice, as he soon finds out, belongs to a little prince who has left his tiny planet to travel the universe. In response to this little man's many curious questions, the pilot begins to draw a number of images and slowly comes to understand the truths about life in all its peculiarity and strangeness. The Little Prince was first published in 1943 and has since been translated into more than 250 languages. A remarkable story told with enduring charm, it soon became one of the most widely read books in the world and continues to delight readers of all ages.