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Table of Contents THE BASICS The Company ....................................................................01 The Story .......................................................................... 02 Who’s Who? ...................................................................... 03 EXPLORATIONS A Note from Artistic Director Dennis Garnhum ..................... 04 Creating The Little Prince – The Musical Nicolas Lloyd Webber and James D. Reid .................. 05 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Author and Aviator .................................................. 07 Writing The Little Prince ........................................... 09 Léon Werth and The Little Prince’s Dedication ........... 12 An Explosion of Imagination Bretta Gerecke’s Designs for The Little Prince ............ 13 The Little Prince Miscellany ................................................ 15 CONVERSATIONS Conversation Starters ........................................................ 16 Draw Me A Sheep .............................................................. 16 Build Your Own Planet ....................................................... 17 Big Reads from Calgary Public Library ................................. 19 Sources ............................................................................ 21
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The Company Theatre Calgary in association with Lamplighter Drama, London, UK presents the World Premiere of
THE LITTLE PRINCE – THE MUSICAL Based on the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Adapted by Nicholas Lloyd Webber and James D. Reid THE CAST The The The The The
Little Prince Pilot Snake Rose Fox
Sarah Caraher Adam Brazier Louise Pitre Elicia MacKenzie Jennie Neumann
PLEIADES – THE STARS Taygete Maia Electra Celaeno Sterope Alcyone
Chelsey Duplak Jocelyn Gauthier Keely Hutton Nicole Norsworthy Yemie Sonuga Jena VanElslander
MEN ON PLANETS The Businessman The Drunk The Geographer The Vain Man The Lamplighter The King
Kevin Forestell Julio Fuentes W. Joseph Matheson Andrew McAllister Alexander Nicoll Justin Raisbeck
THE CREATIVE TEAM Director Composers, Book and Lyrics Set and Costume Design Orchestrations composed by Music Supervisor Musical Director Choreographer Projection and Video Design Production Dramaturg Associate Choreographer and Dance Captain Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Apprentice Stage Manager
Dennis Garnhum Nicholas Lloyd Webber and James D. Reid Bretta Gerecke Simon Lee with Nicholas Lloyd Webber and James D. Reid Simon Lee Elizabeth Baird Lisa Stevens Sean Nieuwenhuis Zachary Moull Jena VanElslander Jennifer Swan Sara Turner Alexandra Shewan
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The Story A Pilot crashes his plane in the middle of the desert and meets a Little Prince, who asks him to draw a sheep. A Snake appears and explains that the Little Prince comes from an asteroid and has been wandering for nearly a year. She sends the Pilot back in time so that he can learn from the Little Prince's journey: Over a year ago on Asteroid B612, the Little Prince fell in love with a beautiful Rose, but they soon seemed to be incompatible. So he left his asteroid to search for a true friend, meeting five foolish grown-ups on nearby planets and learning an important lesson about devotion from a sixth. The Little Prince landed on Earth in the empty desert, where he met the Snake and made a deal: if he finds what he is looking for within one year, he will return to the desert and allow the Snake to send him home with a single venomous bite. He explored the Earth, searching for a friend. He found a whole garden of roses and was stunned to learn that his Rose was not unique. The Pilot, still watching the story unfold, tries to intervene and wakes up back in present time, alone in the desert by his crashed plane. The Little Prince appears, exactly as before. INTERMISSION The Little Prince asks the Pilot to draw a sheep for him to take on his impending journey back to his asteroid, and the Pilot eventually obliges. When the Pilot realizes they have run out of water and will soon die of thirst, the Little Prince sets out into the desert, saying that it hides a well. The Pilot follows, and as they walk, the Little Prince shares the story of how he met a Fox:
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The Fox found the Little Prince crying next to the rose garden, and they slowly became friends through “taming” each other. The Fox then sent the Little Prince back to the rose garden, where he now understood how his Rose was different from the others and why he needed to return home to her on Asteroid B612. The Fox gave the Little Prince one last secret – which he shares with the Pilot. On the verge of death, the Pilot takes strength in the Fox's secret and the Little Prince's wisdom. The Pilot finds the well and is restored. He goes back to repair his plane, while the Little Prince makes his final arrangements with the Snake...
Who’s Who? The Little Prince: A boy from Asteroid B612 The Pilot: An aviator who crashes his plane in the middle of the desert The Rose: The Little Prince’s love, a rose who grows on his asteroid The Pilot’s Rose: The Pilot’s love, a woman in a red dress The Snake: A desert dweller with supernatural powers The Fox: A friend of the Little Prince once they “tame” each other The Pleiades: Stars who guide the Pilot and the Little Prince Men on Planets: Grown-ups who each live on their own planet – a King, a Businessman, a Geographer, a Vain Man, a Drunk, and a Lamplighter Roses Sheep Chickens A Chorus of Grown-ups
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A Note from Artistic Director Dennis Garnhum Theatre Calgary is proud to begin the New Year with this world-premiere adaptation of The Little Prince. I first encountered this project three years ago, and since that time I have enjoyed listening to the beautiful score andimagining the day when the story would come to life on our stage. We are partnering
with
the
British
theatrical producers Lamplighter in our first-ever partnership with Director Dennis Garnhum, music supervisor a European company. The Simon Lee, and composers Nicholas Lloyd brilliant writing team, Nicholas
Webber and James D. Reid explore one of the musical's songs in May 2015
Lloyd Webber and James D. Reid, have been working closely with us for the past few years and have been here in Calgary since December in orderto prepare this production for its debut. This has truly been an international collaboration of epic proportions. It has been said that the fantasy world of The Little Prince works because the logic is based on the imagination of children, rather than the strict realism of adults. We’ve dared ourselves to live in the abstract, to paint bold pictures, and to chart the most outrageously thrilling journeys without hesitation. The life lessons of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s beautiful novella are here set to music in the most surprising and delightful of ways as the Pilot and the Little Prince search the planet Earth, the galaxy, and the stars to better understand themselves. Welcome to the wild and wonderful world of The Little Prince. DENNIS GARNHUM Artistic Director
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Creating The Little Prince – The Musical Nicholas Lloyd Webber and James D. Reid Composers Nicholas Lloyd Webber and James D. Reid, who co-wrote the music, lyrics, and libretto for The Little Prince – The Musical, have been working on the project since 2009. They spoke about their creative journey on the first day of rehearsal at Theatre Calgary. The following is an edited transcript: James: We’d finished a cycle of songs based on Vivaldi for the BBC’s preschool channel, and I basically
said
to
Nicholas,
“What are we going to do now?” Nicholas: We went down to my house for the weekend, and
James D. Reid and Nicholas Lloyd Webber on the first day of rehearsal
James kept throwing The Little Prince at me and saying that we had to do this. So we said that if by the end of the Sunday we hadn’t written a decent song, we’d give up. And it got to that last night and I think we’d pretty much given up, hadn’t we? James: We’d literally given up. It was two or three in the morning, so technically Monday. Nicholas: We decided to give it one last try and we sat back down at the piano. James had opened the book up towards the end and there’s this line that’s repeated, “Because it is she...” I remember that all of five minutes later we’d written that song.
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James: The line is from the original Katherine Wood translation, which is quite odd at times, but there’s a music within it. Nicholas: It’s in a natural 3/4 time signature so we had ourselves a phrase. James: And so we just started singing this little tune... and then we passed out. Nicholas: Then it became an interesting challenge to make the whole thing come to life. With the Snake for example, instead of writing a traditional evil snake character, we tried to give her some traits that we could recognize as human. One day James’s iPod was on shuffle and an Edith Piaf song came on and we went, “hang on a minute.” So that was our way in for the Snake, and we’ve tried to bring all these characters to life in a way that’s tangible. Music was always the starting point in our writing sessions, with James on the guitar and myself on the piano. James: There are two elements to The Little Prince really – there’s what seems to be a children’s story, and underneath there’s a story that is very autobiographical of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry himself. For us, that brought up so much material to draw from. Nicholas: It’s worth noting that quite quickly we decided to focus on the Pilot, and how the Little Prince – who’s almost like his younger self – helps him learn to engage with the world that he’s left behind. James: This is very much the Pilot’s story, although the Little Prince’s journey is incredibly important too because the two stories are parallel and reflect each other. A pilot crashing a plane in the desert is a metaphor for a man being broken, and he has to fix himself before he can fix his plane. He learns how to do that from his mentor, the Little Prince.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Author and Aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, now best known as the author of The Little Prince, was part of a generation of pioneering French aviators who captured the country’s imagination in the 1920s and ‘30s as they opened up airmail routes to the far reaches of Africa
and
South
America.
Saint-Exupéry’s clear-eyed and evocative tales – which he sometimes wrote in mid-air – conveyed
the
transcendent
experience of flight at a time when few had journeyed into the sky. Born in 1900 into an aristocratic family,
Saint-Exupéry
spent
much of his childhood roaming
Saint-Exupéry in 1933
free on the grounds of a château near Lyons. A creative child with a love of gardening and animals, he routinely woke his family in the middle of the night to recite fresh poetry and once made an unsuccessful attempt at designing a flying bicycle. He found his passion when a pilot from a nearby airfield took him for his first flight at the age of twelve. After a short stint as a military pilot in his early twenties – which ended in his first of many plane crashes – Saint-Exupéry gave up flying at the request of his then-fiancée’s family and took a job working in an office. He was marvellously unsuited to bookkeeping and filing, and neither the career change nor the fiancée lasted long. By 1926, he secured a position as
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a pilot for the Latécoère company (later Aéropostale) flying mail routes in the northwest of Africa. In 1929, he was transferred to Argentina, where he met and married Consuelo Suncin, who would become his inspiration for the Rose in The Little Prince. Although they loved each other deeply and Saint-Exupéry called her his muse, their relationship was stormy and had many separations. In this early era of aviation, pilots were true adventurers who had to handle unreliable planes and untrustworthy navigation systems. SaintExupéry was not one of the period’s most legendary flyers, but in his parallel career as a writer, he helped build the mythology of those who were. His second novel Night Flight, published in 1931, tells the story of three mail planes headed for Buenos Aires on an ill-fated night; the book was praised as the best description of flight ever written, and SaintExupéry’s heroic pilots and their thrilling exploits struck a chord with readers. Applications for pilot training doubled in the next year.
"The earth grew spangled with light-signals as each house lit its star, searching the vastness of the night as a lighthouse sweeps the sea. Now every place that sheltered human life was sparkling." –Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight While trying to break the speed record from Paris to Saigon in December of 1935, Saint-Exupéry crashed his plane in the Libyan Desert (the northeast corner of the Sahara). Disoriented and with few supplies beyond a thermos of coffee, Saint-Exupéry and his mechanic André Prévot had little hope of rescue. After two days with no sign of a search mission, they chose to walk east, for the sole reason that one of Saint-Exupéry’s colleagues had saved himself by walking in that direction after a crash in the Andes Mountains.
“What saves a man is to take a step. And another step. It's the same first step, repeated..." –Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars
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Saint-Exupéry poses next to his crashed plane in the Libyan Desert
Saint-Exupéry and Prévot were seeing mirages and near death from dehydration when, on the fourth day, they were rescued by Bedouins. Saint-Exupéry wrote about the desert crash and his survival experience in his 1939 memoir Wind, Sand and Stars and later drew upon the tale for The Little Prince. Writing The Little Prince In the early days of World War II, Saint-Exupéry joined the French Air Force and flew reconnaissance missions during the German invasion of France. After the fall of Paris, he escaped the country and went into exile in New York, hoping to persuade the United States to enter the war quickly. In 1942 he published Flight to Arras, a distillation of his wartime experiences into one harrowing flight over enemy territory. By presenting a noble vision of France’s war efforts to the American public, the book did much to sway public opinion. Accounts of Saint-Exupéry’s time in New York reveal a man who delighted in whimsy and had his eye on the sky. He launched fleets of paper airplanes from the windows of his Central Park apartment and once
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threw a basket of paper helicopters from the top of the Empire State Building – prototypes of a motorless autogiro that he thought might help in the liberation of France. But at the same time, Saint-Exupéry’s health was declining after a lifetime of plane crashes. His latest attempt at reconciling with his wife Consuelo was tumultuous, and he was feeling mounting guilt at the fate of his compatriots living under the German occupation. After Flight to Arras, he had no creative project to focus on. Elizabeth Reynal, the wife of his publisher, suggested he distract himself by writing about the cheerful little fellow that he had drawn over and over again in the margins of the manuscript for his war story. In fact, Saint-Exupéry had been sketching the Little Prince since the mid-1930s on notepads,
Consuelo de Saint-Exupery in 1942
letters, and even restaurant tablecloths. But the origins of the character were mysterious. According to biographer Stacy Schiff, Saint-Exupéry would only say that one day “he looked down on what he had thought was a blank sheet of paper to find a tiny figure.” Saint-Exupéry wrote The Little Prince in a burst of creative energy over the summer and fall of 1942, often working late into the night, fueled by coffee, cigarettes, and Coca Cola. He created its famous illustrations himself with a set of children’s watercolour paints. Much of the work took place at the apartment of his friend Silvia Reinhardt, whose poodle
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modeled for the Saint-Exupéry’s drawings of sheep. Since Reinhardt spoke little French and Saint-Exupéry refused to take English lessons, the pair devised their own non-verbal ways of communicating – which may have inspired the unique friendship between the Fox and the Little Prince. The Little Prince was published in April of 1943. Some early readers were surprised by Saint-Exupéry's abrupt shift from thrilling accounts of adventure and war to what seemed a bit like children’s literature. P.L. Travers, the author of Mary Poppins, had the insight that The Little Prince’s true message was for grown-ups (or the grown-ups that children would become). Children naturally see with their hearts, she explained in her review of the book, so they will not need the Fox’s secret until they have to find it again later in life. “The Little Prince will shine upon children with a sidewise gleam,” she wrote. “It will strike them in some place that is not the mind and glow there until the time comes for them to comprehend it.” That same month, Saint-Exupéry left for North Africa to rejoin his squadron in the Free French Air Force, despite concerns that his age and many prior injuries made him unfit to fly. Before he shipped out, he put the coffee-stained manuscript in a crumpled brown envelope and gave it to Reinhardt as a parting gift, saying “I wish I had something splendid for you to remember me by, but this is all I have.” In the decades since it was published, The Little Prince has become one of the world’s most widely read works of literature. It has sold more than 140 million copies and has been translated into more than 250 languages. Artists have adapted it into any medium imaginable: plays, operas, graphic novels, movies, board games, and more. Saint-Exupéry didn’t live to see its success. On July 31, 1944, he took off from an airbase in Corsica to fly a reconnaissance mission over the south of France. He never returned. Remnants of his plane were finally found more than fifty years later, in the Mediterranean Sea near Marseilles.
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Léon Werth and The Little Prince’s Dedication Antoine de Saint-Exupéry famously dedicated The Little Prince to his close friend Léon Werth, a French Jewish art critic and surrealist writer who was among the estimated two million refugees who had fled Paris during the German invasion in 1940. In Richard Howard’s translation, the first page of the book reads: TO LEON WERTH I ask children to forgive me for dedicating this book to a grown-up. I have a serious excuse: this grown-up is the best friend I have in the world. I have another excuse: this grown-up can understand everything, even books for children. I have a third excuse: he lives in France, where he is hungry and cold. He needs to be comforted. If all these excuses are not enough, then I want to dedicate this book to the child whom this grown-up once was. All grown-ups were children first. (But few of them remember it.) So I correct my dedication: TO LEON WERTH WHEN HE WAS A LITTLE BOY
Saint-Exupéry and Werth never saw each other again after 1940. Since The Little Prince was not published in France until after the end of the war, Werth was not able to read the book – and Saint-Exupéry’s dedication – until several months after his friend had disappeared.
“A well spreads its power far and wide, like love.” –Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars
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An Explosion of Imagination Bretta Gerecke’s Designs for The Little Prince – The Musical At the start of the design process for Theatre Calgary’s The Little Prince – The Musical, director Dennis Garnhum asked his team for an explosion of imagination. “When a director gives you a gift like that,” says set and costume designer Bretta Gerecke, “you have a responsibility to run with it.” One of Canada’s most imaginative designers, Gerecke is uniquely qualified to rise to this challenge. The resident designer for Edmonton’s Catalyst Theatre, she creates innovative designs for the company’s awardwinning original productions such as Nevermore, Hunchback, and Frankenstein (which was our 2009 High Performance Rodeo presentation). She’s known for her creative uses of unexpected materials – her designs call for tinfoil and bubble wrap as often as lumber and fabric, converting everyday elements into fantastical creations on the stage.
“The
transformation,”
Gerecke says, “is part of the magic.”
See images from Gerecke’s past designs on her website here The
Little
Prince
speaks
eloquently about the power of creativity through the story of a pilot who has forgotten his childhood talent for drawing. The original book, written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, is filled with the author’s own
Costume rendering for The Rose by Bretta Gerecke
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illustrations of his characters and the marvellous worlds they inhabit.
For
Gerecke,
these
evocative drawings were sparks of inspiration. “Saint-Exupéry’s illustrations are clear and cleanlined,” she explains. “The way he draws allows you to fill in the
blanks
with
your
imagination.” Gerecke hopes that her work for The Little Prince – The Musical will spur imaginations in much the same way. “My job as a designer,” she says, “is to help the audience go to places that
they
may
have
Costume rendering for The Snake by Bretta Gerecke
never
imagined before, in this case on a ride to other planets. When I go to the theatre myself, I want to be transported. I want it to feel like a joy.” This article was first published in the house programme for The Crucible, and it appears in an altered form in the Winter edition of Arts Commons Magazine.
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” –Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras
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The Little Prince Miscellany Baobabs The Little Prince’s asteroid has a baobab problem. These large trees grow mainly in Africa, particularly on the island of Madagascar. They can grow 30m tall and 10m wide, storing thousands of litres of water in their enormous trunks. So the Little Prince has to be diligent and pick the sprouts before they
grow
too
large
and
destroy his home.
Baobab trees in Madagascar (photo by Bernard Gagnon)
The Pleiades Seven stars who guide the Pilot and the Little Prince on their journey through space. The Pleiades are part of the Taurus constellation and have been known by many cultures since ancient times. In Greek mythology, they are described as seven sisters. The Fox The Fox in The Little Prince lives near wheatfields and chickens and not in the desert, but SaintExupéry based the illustrations in the book on a species of desert fox called the fennec, which he knew well from his time stationed at an airfield in Morocco. The fennec’s large ears keep cool in the hot desert.
A fennec fox (photo by Dierk Schaefer)
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Conversation Starters
What role do imagination and creativity play in your daily life?
When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?
Is there something you loved to do as a young child that you don’t do anymore? Why did you stop?
Should promises always be kept, no matter what?
Do you run away from challenges or meet them head on?
What do you do on a daily basis to tend to your relationships?
How do you make new friends?
What does it mean to see with your heart?
Have you ever received wisdom from an unexpected source?
What do you think happens to the Little Prince at the end of the play? What about the Pilot?
Draw Me A Sheep When he first appears, the Little Prince asks the Pilot to draw him a sheep. This is hard for him to do since he hasn’t drawn anything since he was a young child. In the empty space below, draw a sheep for the Little Prince:
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Build Your Own Planet In early January, Beakerhead and Theatre Calgary partnered to bring a group of 24 people to the backstage of the Max Bell Theatre into the world of The Little Prince – the Musical for a workshop led by the production’s set and costume designer, Bretta Gerecke. Bretta walked the group through her creative design and problem-solving process, and then they designed and built their own beautiful, out-of-this-world, creative inflatable moons and planets built around weather balloons.
Completed planets in our scene shop at the end of the day-long workshop
Now it’s your turn to build a planet! Create your own unique art installation in the spirit of The Little Prince through Bretta’s design process of experimentation, problem-solving, and getting your hands dirty. This project is about activating the imagination, so use whatever materials inspire you. The instructions on the next page are just a guideline.
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Materials Newspaper
Liquid glue
Medium-sized bowl (one per five planet-makers)
Beach ball or balloon
Paint (variety of colours)
Paint brush
Foam balls, paper, pipe cleaners, popsicle sticks, straws, glitter, ribbon, cardboard – anything you can think of to add to your planet!
Papier Mâché 1. Mix ¼ cup of glue and some water in a medium bowl (one bowl per five planet-makers). The end result should be a slightly runny mixture. 2. Tear your newspaper into thin strips. 3. Blow up your beach ball or balloon. 4. Dip the strips of newspaper in the mixture in your bowl, one by one, eventually covering the entire balloon. You can smooth out the bumps as you go or leave them, depending on whether your planet has smooth or rocky terrain. 5. If your mixture begins to run out, repeat step 1. 6. Let the balloon dry overnight. Decorate! 1. Start by painting your planet the colour of your choice (acrylic paint dries the fastest). 2. Get creative! Add rings, moons, baobabs, alien life forms, cities, and anything else you can imagine using any material! Remember – there are no mistakes, and experimentation is the key to creative success! 3. What else can you do with your planet after you have decorated? Can you make it float? Rotate? The sky is the limit!
We want to see your planets! Send us pictures of your art on Twitter or Instagram using #tcLittlePrince or email kbooth@theatrecalgary.com
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Big Reads from Calgary Public Library By Rosemary Griebel Calgary Public Library has more than 50 copies of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince. Click here to find one at a branch near you!
The Little Prince Graphic Novel, by Antoine de SaintExupéry, adapted by Joann Sfar Graphic novel, 2010. Celebrated French cartoonist Sfar provides a wonderful comic adaptation of Saint-Exupéy's timeless classic. Hand-chosen by Saint-Exupéry's French publishers for his literary style and sensitivity to the original, Sfar has endeavoured to recreate this beloved story, both honouring the original and stretching it to new heights.
The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, by Peter Sis Illustrated biography, 2014. Sis's picture-book biography of the famous French aviator and author invites readers to take time and attend to the narrative in both the straightforward text and the nuanced, complex pictures. A beautiful and densely imagined portrait of Saint-Exupéry.
Saint-Exupéry: A Biography, by Stacy Schiff Biography, 1994. Saint-Exupéry was one of the most remarkable figures in 20th-century history: a pioneer aviator, a swashbuckling international hero, and author of many international bestsellers. Based on extensive interviews and previously unpublished material, this book brings Saint-Exupéry to life, and separates the man from the myth.
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The Tale of the Rose: The Passion That Inspired the Little Prince, by Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry Memoir, 2001. Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry’s account of their extraordinary marriage to Antoine. It is a tumultuous love story about a man who yearned for the stars and the spirited woman who gave him the strength to fulfill his dreams.
Wind, Sand and Stars, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Memoir, 1939/1967. Both a gripping tale of adventure and a poetic meditation, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Wind, Sand and Stars is the lyrical autobiography of an aviation pioneer who recounts his flight adventures while also meditating on the human spirit and the simple pleasures of life and relationships.
The Once & Future King , by T.H. White Fiction, 1939. For readers who are looking for an enduring classic like The Little Prince that combines powerful storytelling with great psychological power, this retelling of the Arthurian epic is written for an ageless audience and sets the bar for historical fantasy.
Click on the book covers to check availability at Calgary Public Library!
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Sources Gopnik, Adam. “The Strange Triumph of The Little Prince.” The New Yorker, Apr 29 2014. “Pleiades.” Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de. The Little Prince. 1943. Trans. Richard Howard. Harcourt: New York, 2000. Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de. Wind, Sand and Stars. 1939. Trans. William Rees. Penguin: New York, 1995. Schiff, Stacy. Saint-Exupéry. 1994. Holt: New York, 2006.