Description
Some books are read once. Others are read the way you return to a garden, every season, noticing something new. For Sacha, Le Petit Prince was the second kind. She found her mother’s copy at nine, its corners soft, its watercolors faded, and read it under the blankets with a torch while the wind pushed at the shutters of their apartment in Toulouse.
She did not understand the businessman or the lamplighter that first time. She understood the fox immediately. At fifteen she understood the rose. At thirty, reading it aloud to a goddaughter, she found herself unable to finish the last page and had to hand the book over. This miniature volume celebrates that kind of lifelong companion. It makes a tender gift for a christening, a graduation or a friend who quotes the fox at every farewell. On a nightstand, a children’s bookshelf or among well-loved paperbacks, it looks perfectly at home, a small planet of its own among the stars.
A closer look
- Storybook design inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s tale
- Measures around 1.5″ x 2″ x 1″
- The cover opens to reveal a tiny hiding place
- Designed by Rochard
- Fine porcelain with hand-painted color, made in Limoges, France
Hide a slip of paper inside with your favorite line from the book. It is a quiet way of saying that what matters most is invisible to the eye.
