I

When I was 6 years old, I saw

magnificent picture in a book...

I showed my first draw to the

grown-ups, and asked...
A n t o i n e pdéery
S ai n t - E x u
190 0 -1944
Learned the aviator's trade during
his military service. They didn't understand, so I
1926. El aviator drawed other one...
1928 -1939. Southern Mail and
Night Flight.
1940. He moved to New York.
1942. War Pilot
1943. Letter to a Hostage and The
Beginning
1944. He died on July 31 when his They told me, I should devote
plane disappeared in the myself into geography, history,
Mediterranean. arithmetic, and grammar... So
1948. The Citadel, Posthumous learned to pilot airplanes
Publication

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my life alone, without anyone that I could really talk to, until I
had an accident with my plane in the Desert of Sahara, six years ago...
and I met him
A little prince, he woke me up and After the rejection of my third
asked "please-draw me a sheep" drawing, tired and hurried, I
But I drew my first picture drew a box and said: "This is
because I didn´t know how draw only his box. The sheep you
anything else asked for is inside

The little prince cheerfully

accepted it and said, “That is
When he saw it, told me “No, I do exactly how I wanted it!”.
not want an elephant inside a boa
constrictor... draw me a sheep”
and I tried again.

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Reference:
Saint-Exupéry, A. (1943). The little prince. Retrieved from https://freeditorial.com/es/books/the-little-prince.
Fernández, Tomás and Tamaro, Elena. "Biografia de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry." In Biographies and Lives. The online biographical encyclopedia
[Internet]. Barcelona, Spain, 2004. Available at https://shre.ink/nlQa [last accessed October 7, 2023].