[2023 ~ Book 5] The Little Prince Edisi Livraria Lello Porto

 

Title: The Little Prince (Le Petite Prince) Livraria Lello Porto edition   

Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry  

Translator: Katherine Woods 

Editor: BookBug

Foreword: Victor Hugo Mãe

Art Director & Graphic Design: Mariana Pereira - Livraria Lello 

Creative Director: Hugo Cardoso - Livraria Lello

Layout: Luís Santos

Cover's Illustrator: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

6th Edition, November 2019

Printed and bound by EsenArt Basim Ltd

An exclusive edition of Livraria Lello - Porto Portugal 

Pages number: 132 pages

ISBN: 9-789898-939043

Genre: Fiction, Children Literature, Classic, Prince, Imagination  

Status: Femi gave it to me ^^

We've all been the crown prince of a kingdom called childhood. The prince is, here, king of a flock of one sheep. The one that, Pilot, after making an emergency landing in the Sahara Desert, was invited to draw. From here on, Little Prince and Pilot fly from planet to planet, finding, in each one, a single man who thus becomes a new citizen of this kingdom as imaginary and utopian as necessary. 

Hai, Ilman dan Zi...

I was very excited when I got this book from Femi. Femi was one of my pupil when I was a mentor at PAS ITB. Seeing her growing and now she is a wife and a mom-to-be made me realize that the time has really flew away. I met her when she was a toddler! 

As the collections, I already have the Indonesian and Sundanese editions. Yes, Sundanese. Seriously. It was also written in Sundanese font, Hanacaraka! I got this beautiful edition from Femi when we met after a long time and she just arrived from Germany to prepare her wedding here. 

I was meant to talk about the physic of this book, but I realize that I've never review The Little Prince in my blog, so I think I want to share how I felt about this book, since the first time I read it. This is the fifth book I read this year. 

The Little Prince is about a meeting between a child who called himself as a Prince with a man whose plane crashed in the desert. The man was stuck in the middle of nowhere. No water. No building. No other human at all. The man is the main character of the book, using the first point of view. The man is the writer of the book. I guess he was an Air Force pilot troops who flew the plane and got crashed in the middle of nowhere. 

The man used to like drawing when he was very young. He drew an elephant that swallowed by a snake, but when he showed the drawing to the adults, they interpreted the drawing as a hat. And he felt broken hearted. Since then, he judged the adults are always beyond imagination. 

But the prince, just popped up from nowhere, asked him to draw a sheep for him. The kid said that he only had a rose and three mountains in his planet, so he needed a sheep for his planet so he wouldn't feel to lonely. Then the prince asked him to draw a box to put the sheep so the sheep won't go anywhere. Unexpectedly, the little prince understood the man's drawing.

As the days go by, still trapped in the middle of nowhere and fixing the broken plane, the prince talked about this and that to the man. He talked about his own planet and how the other planets' conditions. The prince also talked about people he met and so on. The man didn't feel to lonely at all because the present of the little prince. 

The story itself always entertain me in some ways. I always in love with the story no matter how many times I re-read it. Sometimes you feel tickled, sometimes you feel touched, but sometimes you can cry too. I feel the warmth of the story and felt understood for some reasons. You should read it. You're gonna like it, kuddos! 

Now about the book. It said that it is exclusively printed for a collection in hard cover version. The size is so small that you can easily grab with your tiny palm. The jacket of the book cover was printed on a luxury paper, not a glossy one but doff one. The surface is so smooth but once it touched a sharp edge of an object, it kinda left a scretched mark on the surface. The edge of the book was printed in gold and it has an attached red ribbon to mark your page. 

I don't mean to disrespect Femi who gave me this copy, but sadly, this version was kinda a rejected product. It has scratch on the surface of the jacket book cover and also has some miss printed on several pages so the text looked shaded and so hard to read. Not just that, some pages were folded and bounded by the binding so I could not even open it. 

I don't have the heart to take pictures of them to post them here since my heart is aching to see this. I hope Femi paid it lesser than the actual price, € 15.90, as for the today's Indonesian currency, it is IDR 256.526. Add 11% for the taxes. 

But still. Even it has an unforgiven flaw, it's still a beautiful and easy grab book for me. So I think I can always re-read it anytime I miss the Little Prince. I still love it no matter what. But if you eagerly to buy this copy, make sure you have checked the physic of the book thoroughly, because you get what you paid.

I read this book to fill: 

- Goodreads Challenge 2023

- Abroad and Beyond Reading Challenge 2023 

- BBI Joglosemar Babat Timbunan 2023

- Books in English Reading Challenge 2023

- BBBBC Reading Challenge 2023

Enuff said. Stay healthy you two! See you on my next review! Love you both, xoxo!