The Little Prince Alone in the desert, an airplane pilot meets an astonishing little prince.
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“Draw me a sheep,” the young man demands. The pilot draws a sheep, and then the conversation becomes stranger and stranger. Who is this little prince? Where does he come from? And why does he need a sheep?
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The Little Prince
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The Little Prince
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry retold by
Nick Bullard
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© 2016 – StandFor Editorial Director Lauri Cericato Editorial Manager Cayube Galas Editorial Coordinator Ana Carolina Costa Lopes Series Editor Nick Bullard Editorial Assistant Nathalia Thomaz Production Manager Mariana Milani Production Coordinator Marcelo Henrique Ferreira Fontes Proofreader Nicole Irving Art Manager Ricardo Borges Art Coordinator Daniela Di Creddo Máximo Design Yan Comunicação Cover Design Yan Comunicação Art Supervisor Patrícia De Michelis Art Editors/Layout Yan Comunicação, Lidiani Minoda Illustrations Coordinator Márcia Berne Illustrations Anna Anjos Operations Director and Reginaldo Soares Damasceno Print Production Manager
Dados Internacionais de Catalogação na Publicação (CIP) (Câmara Brasileira do Livro, SP, Brasil) Bullard, Nick The little prince : level 3 / retold by Nick Bullard ; illustrated by Anna Anjos. -- 1. ed. -São Paulo : FTD, 2016. -- (Standfor young readers) ISBN 978-85-96-00733-7 (aluno) ISBN 978-85-96-00734-4 (professor) 1. Literatura infantojuvenil I. Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944. II. Anjos, Anna. III. Título. IV. Série. 16-06936 CDD-028.5
Índices para catálogo sistemático: 1. Literatura infantil 028.5 2. Literatura infantojuvenil 028.5
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What do you know about the little prince? Match the words to the pictures. 1.
He lives on a small planet.
2.
He meets a king.
3.
He is friends with a flower.
4.
He meets a snake.
5.
He meets a fox.
BEFORE READING
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Look at the pictures in the book and check the words to finish the sentences. 1.
The little prince is... a.
2.
b.
young. ✔
b.
very small.
b.
in a desert.
The little prince’s planet is… a.
3.
old.
very big.
Some of the story happens… a.
in a house.
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As a boy of six I see this picture:
In the book, it says: “Snakes eat a big animal and then sleep for six months.” I draw my first picture:
“Are you scared of this?” I ask some grown-ups. “We’re not scared of a hat,” they say. “It’s not a hat. It’s a snake with an elephant in it.” Grown-ups don’t understand. They don’t want you to draw pictures. They want you to go to school. I don’t draw pictures now. I fly airplanes. 4
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My airplane crashes in the Sahara Desert. I am alone and my airplane doesn’t fly. I need to repair it. I am two thousand kilometers from a house, and I have water for eight days. The first evening I am sleeping. I hear a voice. “Please. Draw me a sheep.” “What?” “Draw me a sheep.” I open my eyes. I see a little prince.
“What are you doing here?” I ask. “Please. Draw me a sheep.” 5
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“I can’t draw.” “That’s not important. Draw me a sheep.” I can’t draw a sheep. I draw the snake and the elephant. “I don’t want an elephant in a snake. Elephants are very big. At home everything is small. I need a sheep.” I draw this:
“That’s a box. Your sheep is in the box.” “Good! Does this sheep eat a lot?” “Why?” “Because everything is small at home.” “It’s a very small sheep.” 6
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The little prince sees my airplane. “What’s that?” he asks. “An airplane.” “You come from the sky too? Which planet?” “Where is your home?” I ask. “Where are you going with the sheep?” He looks at the drawing. “I like this box.” he answers. “It’s a house for my sheep.” “I can draw a rope, too.” “Why?” “So it doesn’t go away.” The little prince laughs. “My planet is very small.” There are big planets: Jupiter, Mars, and so on. But there are thousands of small planets. When people see a new one, they give it a number. The little prince’s planet is B 612.
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On the third day the little prince asks: “Do sheep eat plants?” “Yes, they do.” “So they eat baobabs,” he says. “But,” I say, “baobabs are very big trees. Ten elephants can’t eat a baobab.” The little prince laughs. “But a baobab is a small plant first.” On the little prince’s planet there are good plants and bad plants. You want the good plants, but you don’t want the bad plants.
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There are baobabs on the little prince’s planet. You pull up a baobab when it is small. If you don’t, they get big. A lot of baobabs can break the planet. “I get up and wash in the morning,” says the little prince. “Then I clean the planet carefully. I pull up all the little baobabs. It’s boring, but it isn’t difficult. Here is a planet with some big baobabs:
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On the fifth day, the little prince asks. “Do sheep eat flowers?” “A sheep eats everything.” “A flower with thorns?” “Yes.” “Why do flowers have thorns then?” I am under my airplane and I am worried about water. “My flower thinks it’s safe because of the thorns. What do you think?” “I don’t know,” I say angrily. “I’m working. It’s important.” “Important!” says the little prince. “You talk like a grown-up. There’s a beautiful flower on my planet. My sheep can eat it. That’s important!” He starts to cry. “O.K.,” I say. “I can draw a muzzle for your sheep.” 10
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The little prince tells me: “There are flowers on my planet. And,” he says, “one day a beautiful new flower appears, with four thorns.” “It’s time for breakfast,” she says to the little prince. The little prince gives her some water.
“Why do you have thorns?” he asks one day. “Tigers can come and eat me,” says the flower. “There aren’t any tigers here.” “I’m not scared of tigers. I have thorns. But I don’t like the cold. At night please put a glass bowl over me. It’s cold on your planet.” The little prince tells me: “My flower is very vain. She wants to be right all the time.”
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One day it’s time for the little prince to go. He gets up and cleans his volcanoes. He has three volcanoes, and sometimes they cook breakfast for him.
He pulls up some baobabs and gives the flower some water. “Goodbye,” he says. “I’m sorry,” says the flower. “I’m vain and stupid.” “Do you want the glass bowl over you?” “No. I don’t need it. I like the cold now and I have my thorns. Now go, and be happy.” 12
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The little prince is near planets 325, 326, 327, 328, 229, and 330. On the first planet, there is a king with beautiful clothes.
“Come here!” says the king. The little prince is tired. “Can I sit down?” he asks. “I order you to sit down.” The king likes to order people. He orders them to do what they want. But the planet is very small and there is no chair for the little prince. “I want to go now,” he says. “I order you to go,” says the king.
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On the second planet is a very vain man. “Ah, an admirer!” he says. For vain people, everyone is an admirer. “Hello,” says the little prince. “You have an interesting hat.” “Clap your hands!” The little prince claps. The vain man takes off his hat. The little prince claps again. The vain man takes off his hat again. “Am I the most interesting man on the planet?” “You are the only man on the planet,” says the little prince.
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On the next planet is a drinker. He has a lot of bottles.
“What are you doing?” asks the little prince. “I’m drinking.” “Why are you drinking?” “To forget.” “To forget what?” “To forget that I drink.” The little prince is sad, and confused. On the fourth planet there is a businessman.
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“Two and three are five. Five and seven, twelve. Hello. Fifteen and seven, twenty-two. That’s five hundred and one million, six hundred and twenty-two thousand, seven hundred and one.” “Five hundred million what?” “No time to talk. This is important.” “Five hundred million what?” “Millions of those little things in the sky.” “The stars? Why do you count them?” “I have a lot of stars. I’m rich. I want to buy more stars.” “But what do you do with your stars?” “I count them.”
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The fifth planet is very small. There is a lamp and a lamplighter.
“Why,” thinks the little prince, “is there a lamp and a lamplighter on a planet with no people? It’s beautiful. He lights his lamp and it is like a new star. His lamp goes out, and a star goes to sleep. It’s useful because it’s beautiful.” “The planet turns every minute,” says the lamplighter. “I light my lamp every minute. I can’t sleep!” “It’s difficult for him,” thinks the little prince. “But I like him. He doesn’t think about himself.”
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The sixth planet is big. The man there writes big books. “What’s that book?” asks the little prince. “I’m a geographer. I write about cities, mountains, and deserts.” “This is a beautiful planet,” says the little prince. “Are there any mountains or deserts?” “I don’t know. I’m not an explorer. Geographers don’t move. Explorers come and talk to us. Talk to me about your planet.” “It’s very small,” says the little prince. “There are three volcanoes. And there’s a flower.” “Volcanoes!” says the geographer. “That’s interesting. But I’m not interested in flowers.”
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Finally, the seventh planet is Earth. No people. Something yellow in the sand. “Hello,” says the little prince. “Hello,” says the snake. “Where am I?” “On Earth, in Africa.” “Where are the people?”
“There are no people in a desert.” “I’m alone when there are no people,” says the little prince. “You’re alone with millions of people,” says the snake. “You’re very small, and you have no legs.” “I help people,” says the snake. He is around the little prince’s leg. “I bite people and they go back home. One day, I can help you go home.”
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The little prince walks across the desert. The little prince walks across the desert. There's a garden. There’s a garden. “Hello,” say the roses.
“Hello,” say the roses.
These flowers are the same as his flower. “What are you?” he asks. “We’re roses.” The little prince is sad. His flower is not special. There are five thousand roses in one garden. “My flower is not special. I have a rose and three volcanoes. I’m not an important prince.” He sits down and cries. 20
Then he sees the fox.
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“Hello. You’re very beautiful! What are you?”
“I’m a fox.” “Come and play with me. I’m sad.” “I can’t,” says the fox. “I’m a wild animal. But give me some time and we can be friends.” “I understand. I have a flower, and I give her my time. We are friends.” “Yes,” says the fox. “You give time to the flower, and the flower is important to you. She is special.” Then the fox says: “We can’t see important things. We feel them in our hearts. Grown-ups don’t understand that.”
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I listen to all of the little prince’s stories. But it is now my eighth day in the desert. “We have no water,” I say to him. “Let’s go find a well,” says the little prince. I look at the desert. There is nothing, only sand. We walk across the sand. “The desert is beautiful,” says the little prince. “It is.” “Deserts are beautiful because there is always a well.” We walk all night. The little prince is tired and I carry him. And in the morning, there is a well. We drink. “Don’t forget the muzzle for my sheep,” says the little prince. I draw it. 22
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“It’s nearly time to go home,” says the little prince. “Go back to your airplane. Come back here tomorrow evening.” The next evening I walk back to the well. There’s an old wall next to it. The little prince is on the wall, and he is talking: “Today is the day.” “Yes,” says a voice. “You can go home tonight.” Then I see it. A small yellow snake. It can kill you in thirty seconds. It goes away into the sand.
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The little prince comes down from the wall. “I’m happy that your airplane is O.K.” he says. “Now you can go home, too.” “How do you know?” I ask. But it’s true. My plane can fly now. “I can go home tonight. I have your sheep. And its box. And its muzzle.” I look at him. “You’re scared, aren’t you?” “Tonight my planet is above us. I can go home. And I can give you something,” he laughs. “When you look at the stars, you know that I am there. And I’m laughing for you.” 24
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He takes my hand: “It’s a long way. I can’t take my body. It’s too big. My body is just an old skin, like the skin of an orange. I need to see my flower. She only has four thorns.” “Now,” he says. I see something yellow near his foot. Then he falls, like a tree.
Today, six years later, when I see the night sky, I think about the little prince on his planet. And I think about the sheep and the flower. Is the flower safe? Is the sheep eating it? Grown-ups don’t understand these important questions. 25
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Answer the questions. The flower
1.
Who has thorns?
2.
Who counts stars?
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3.
Who bites people?
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4.
Who likes to order people?
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5.
Who lives in a box?
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Who says this? Write the names.
ACTIVITIES
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the businessman the flower the fox the geographer the king the lamplighter the little prince the snake the vain man 1. “Draw 2. “I’m 3. “I
not scared of tigers.”
5. “No
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your hands!”
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time to talk. This is important.”
can’t sleep!”
7. “I’m
. .
not interested in flowers.”
8. “One 9. “We 4
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order you to sit down.”
4. “Clap
6. “I
me a sheep.” the little prince .
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day, I can help you go home.”
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can’t see important things.”
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Answer the questions. Write Yes or No. 1. The
little prince comes from a big planet.
2. Baobabs
No
can break a planet.
3. There
are volcanoes on the little prince’s planet.
4. There
are a lot of people in the desert.
5. The
vain man wears a hat.
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6. The 7. A
snake has legs.
8. The 5
lamplighter is happy.
fox is wild.
Check the correct answer. 1. Where a. in
the desert ✔
b. on 2. What a. an b. a 3. The
is the airplane?
the little prince’s planet is a baobab? animal
tree
little prince’s planet is...
a. very
big
b. very
small
4. What
do the volcanoes do for the little prince?
a. clean b. cook 5. What
the planet breakfast
does the vain man want the little prince to do?
a. draw b. clap
a sheep
his hands
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does the businessman count?
ACTIVITIES
6. What
a. stars b. flowers 7. Where
do they find water?
a. in
a well
b. in
the ocean
8. How
many thorns does the flower have?
a. ten b. four
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Circle the correct word. 1. The
little prince comes from a desert / planet.
2. Baobabs
can break / repair a planet.
3. The
geographer writes about / goes to other planets.
4. The
lamplighter’s planet turns every day / minute.
5. The
snake is red / yellow.
6. This
desert is in America / Africa.
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admirer a person who respects another person
flower
airplane a machine that can fly alone with no other people asleep sleeping baobab a big tree; it lives in Africa or Australia
fly move through the air fox
bite cut with your teeth bottle a glass thing for holding water and other liquids bowl a deep round plate break go into two or more parts
garden a place with flowers and trees geographer a person who writes about different places
businessman a man who grown-up a person who is works in business, buying and not a child selling things carry take something with you
kill cause somebody to die
city a place where there are king a very important man a lot of houses and people in a country clothes sweaters, pants, and socks are all clothes
lamp
confused not able to understand clearly crash hit something
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explorer a person who goes lamplighter a person who somewhere to find out about it lights lamps
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snake
GLOSSARY
laugh make a noise when you are happy mountain a high place muzzle a thing you put over the mouth of an animal order say that something must happen
special not ordinary star
planet a round thing which goes around the sun pull up move something up or out of the ground repair make something that is broken work again rope a long, thick string rose a flower with a sweet smell safe not in danger sand very small pieces of rock scared frightened of danger sheep an animal, usually white; we get wool and meat from it skin the outside of the body
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stupid not intelligent and slow to learn thorn a small sharp thing on a plant tiger a large and dangerous wild animal; it is yellow and black vain thinking that you are important voice you speak with your voice volcano a mountain with a hole at the top; hot air and liquids come out of it well a hole with water at the bottom wild living naturally, not in a house
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