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The Little Prince

by Saint-Exupéry
A1 · CEFR 30 days ~10 min / day pages original
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Modern Allegory
Le Petit Prince
Saint-Exupéry
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About this book

Twenty-five days with The Little Prince.

A pilot crash-lands his plane in the Sahara. He is alone with a broken engine and eight days of water. On the first morning a small voice asks him to draw a sheep. The voice belongs to a boy of about six, with golden hair, who has come from another planet and would very much like a sheep.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote Le Petit Prince in 1943 in New York, in exile from occupied France. Across twenty-seven short chapters the boy tells the pilot what he has seen: a king with no subjects, a businessman who counts the stars, a fox who explains that what is essential is invisible to the eye. Then he goes back to his planet and the pilot is left alone in the desert again.

It is the most translated French book in the world after the Bible. The French it is written in is famously simple — short sentences, common verbs, present tense for most of the dialogue. That is why every French class on earth reads it. Storica's A1 adaptation tightens the vocabulary further and keeps the gentleness of the original intact.

Why A1

Why this book at A1.

Saint-Exupéry's prose is one of the rare cases where the original is already almost A1. Short sentences. Almost no rare vocabulary. Dialogue that sounds the way people speak. Adapted to true A1 — the most common five hundred words, present tense, sentences six to eight words long — the book still works as the book Saint-Exupéry wrote. A reader who has finished a textbook and never read a real story can read Le Petit Prince. That is a rare gift in literature.

The cast

Who you'll meet.

The Little Prince
a small boy from asteroid B-612 who has left his planet and a single rose to travel through the universe
The pilot
the narrator; a French aviator stranded in the Sahara who learns to listen to a child
The fox
asks to be tamed; explains the most quoted line in the book — "what is essential is invisible to the eye"
The rose
on the prince's planet; vain and demanding; the reason he leaves and the reason he wants to go back
The snake
the first creature the prince meets in the desert; the last one he speaks to
The grown-ups
a king, a vain man, a drunkard, a businessman, a lamplighter, a geographer — each living alone on a planet, each missing the point
Words you'll meet

Vocabulary themes.

Desert and stars
le désert, les étoiles, le sable, la nuit, le ciel, la planète, la lune
Animals and friendship
le mouton, le renard, la rose, le serpent, apprivoiser (to tame), l'ami
Drawing and seeing
le dessin, dessiner, regarder, voir, montrer, le chapeau, le boa
The grown-ups
les grandes personnes, sérieux, occupé, bizarre, ne pas comprendre, compter
Love and loss
aimer, le cœur, perdu, manquer (to miss), revenir (to come back), l'adieu
What you'll practise

At A1, you read for real grammar.

Beginner. You can read short sentences in present tense, recognise the most common 500 words, and follow a simple plot. Past tense is just out of reach.

Present tenseMost-common 500 wordsSimple questionsAdjectivesSentences up to 8 words
How a day works

Read a passage. Write back.

01
Read
~5 minutes. The day's passage from The Little Prince, adapted to your level. Tap any word to look it up — the rest stays in the language you're learning.
02
Notice
A single hook waits at the end of the passage — a question only you can answer about what you just read.
03
Write back
80–120 words in your target language. Storica catches the grammar so you can focus on the idea. Your reply joins your journal in this language.
Common questions

Reading The Little Prince, step by step.

Can I read The Little Prince in any language on Storica? +

Yes — every book in the Storica catalog is available in all seven supported languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, and English. The Little Prince was originally written in French, but you choose your reading language when you start.

What CEFR level is The Little Prince on Storica? +

A1. Beginner. You can read short sentences in present tense, recognise the most common 500 words, and follow a simple plot. Past tense is just out of reach.

How long does it take to finish The Little Prince? +

About one month at fifteen minutes a day. The adaptation runs to 25 short chapters — short enough to read before bed, long enough to actually move your level.

Do I need to have read the original The Little Prince first? +

No. Storica's adaptation is the version you read. We keep the characters, plot beats, and tone of the original — and rewrite the language to fit the level. If you've read the original before, you'll recognise the story; if you haven't, the adaptation is a complete reading of the book.

What if I miss a day? +

Pick up where you left off. There are no streaks, no penalties, and no notifications begging you back. Day 12 is still Day 12 a week later.

Is The Little Prince suitable for absolute beginners? +

Yes — this is one of our books for early-stage learners. Sentences run short and the vocabulary stays inside the most common five hundred to one thousand words of french.

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