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Collectable, perfect gift, bookstore impulse buy… the giant pop-up book has proved a hit with the public. After a first edition running to 180,000 copies, including 30,000 for France, this charming book has now been reprinted in a further 200,000 copies.
The world loves the Little Prince pop-up book too, as shown by this selection of 15 front covers in languages ranging from Catalan to Korean by way of Modern Greek. Click here! |
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Twenty years ago, 195 countries ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child. A few months ago, we told you about the Draw Me a Right poster competition:
Final deadline for entries: 19 March 2010. Time to start finalising your entries and thinking about submitting them. The three top teams in each category will be invited to visit Brussels from 8 to 10 May 2010 and will visit the European Union institutions.
Find out more: http://www.eurojeune.eu |
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The Little Prince has more fans than it is possible to count in Japan. The book is a national success and has even been the subject of academic research, including a study by university professor Hiroshi Mino. The Little Prince is a true popular icon, on the same footing as the characters of Hayao Miyazaki, the director of animated feature films. He even has his own museum, not far from Mount Fuji, dedicated to the character himself and his author. |  |
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Next summer will see the opening of a new space bearing his name: the Little Prince motorway service area. Near the town of Yorii, this is a popular stopping-off point for passing motorists. There will be restaurant facilities where visitors can taste typical specialities from Provence and stretch their legs in a real garden planted with roses and lavender. |  |
The Little Prince service area is still under construction, but we will be keeping you posted on a project that offers a new take on motorway service areas.
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This has to be one of the best contributions we have received to date. It’s a game developed by Lou Lubie, a young artist of 19 who is currently studying game design. She devised the game for a class assignment that simply asked students to design a shooting game.
Lou’s imagination came up with this non-violent game in which you have to prevent drops of darkness from landing on the soil of your planet, while lighting the lamp with the flame you move around on the screen. |
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Lou’s choice of the Little Prince’s world was no accident; she has her own story to tell about the book, a story we will be sharing with you soon.
To play the game, go to the “Have fun with the Little Prince” section. |
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Kix is the winner of the first prize in the Draw me a sheep competition. His work seemed truly inspired, so we visited his blog, only to see a number of other drawings dedicated to the Little Prince. We asked this talented artist about his first encounter with the Little Prince. |
| « I discovered the Little Prince when I was six. It was a book I had long noticed on my grandparents’ bookshelf. It belonged to my mother. It had lost its cover, worn out over the years: that made it even more mysterious and attractive, just like a book of magic spells might have been. And it really did have a kind of magic that transformed anyone reading it. I actually took it upon myself to draw in the missing cover in my own style« . |  |
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« The book fascinated me, first with its illustrations and then, as soon as I learned to read, with its words that pierced my heart. The beauty and uniqueness of this strange story stuck in my memory as the perfect example of a tale for children. I used to think Antoine de Saint-Exupéry really had met the Little Prince! It seemed obvious to me then; he wouldn’t have been able to survive in the desert otherwise”. Find out more about Kix’s work and ideas on his blog. |
Because the Little Prince is a humanist at heart and open to others, his image has once again been chosen by Réunica, a major player in the field of pensions, health and benefits insurance, to convey the group’s values to the public. As part of his partnership with the French TV documentary series Des Racines et Des Ailes, the Little Prince appears at the start of every programme. This partnership is now celebrating its fifth anniversary.
| Watch the newly launch ad featuring the Little Prince and his fox. |
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Find out more : Réunica.
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Have you ever heard of alternative French? It’s a way of writing French using phonetic spelling. The movement, known as Ortograf.net, was founded in Quebec by Mario Périard and proposes what it believes should be a standardised phonetic way of writing French. Ortograf.net has already published over 90 works under its lè-z Edision Sédisieuz label (think “seditious”).
Now The Little Prince has been “translated” into this alternative form by a software package by the name of Transkripter 1.0. To get an idea of the difference between classical French spelling and the alternative version, visite this website : www.ortograf.net |
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was a jack of all trades. As well as being a writer and a pilot, we know he was also a talented illustrator and an inventor in the field of aeronautics. Not to mention his gift for card tricks.
Hervé Magnin is such another: therapist, essayist and musician. In his writings, he frequently quotes extracts from The Little Prince. He is a great admirer of Saint-Exupéry’s philosophy, and feels very close to him as an author. |
| Porcelaines Stanislas are makers of porcelain, ceramics and enamels. Their creations include Peynet’s Lovers and the Little Prince. Stanislas produce both decorative items such as Longwy enamel eggs and everyday articles such as cups, boxes, fruit bowls, etc. |  |
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Fine French-made articles that are ideal as collectables or to brighten up every day around the home. |  |
Find all these products in the online store.
« The men where you live,” said the Little Prince, “grow five thousand roses in the same garden, and they do not find what they are looking for… And yet what they are looking for could be found in a single rose or in a little water.”
| Flower is a downloadable game for Playstation 3. This article found on the Internet describes testing the game, which begins and ends with a quotation from The Little Prince. Playing Flower involves literally piloting a flower petal borne on the wind. The overall mission is to collect petals as you fly across terrain that varies from green and lush to harsher and more hostile. Click here to read the article by Philippe Carier.
Below is the trailer for Flower, a game that, like The Little Prince, calls our attention to the world around us. |
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