Ysatis DeSaint-Simon – författare

My book, The Return of The Little Prince, is a sequel to the marvelous andwhimsical story of my uncle Antoine De Saint-Exupery,The Little Prince, where myth and poetry mix with reality and speak tous of the eternal in such an innocent manner.Both his story and mine are true.They are real stories of a quest to find that invisible spark of lifewhich gives meaning to all there is.

I learned the story from within, it was myaunt Consuelo De Saint-Exupery, an extraordinaryperson and the inspiration of Saint-Ex, the Rose of his story, who taught me toread, not only French in The Little Prince, but the essence of it aswell. She talked to me about Saint-Ex,his dream world, of his airplane flights, of his moonstruck reveries, hisairplane falls and the spirit that helped him survive them! Everything in that book was an integral partof what later happened to me and helped me to find that secret that nowillumines my life.

I remember. . .when I was a little girl, maybe six years old, I learned to read. . . know. . .and love the Little Prince. Later on, Ilearned that many others also did; it was, I believe, the bedside book of JamesDean. I never knew him personally, but Iread in an interview of a movie magazine that he said The Little Princewas his Bible. . . and I wondered if what drew him toit was the same thing that I loved about it?What I loved best was the invisible hidden in between such simple wordsand its childlike drawings, for concealed behind the fairytale there was a roadmap to a true spiritual experience.

Whenever I read the last page of myuncle''s book, I was moved by his sadness and felt a sense of urgency within meto find that lonely star landscape. So,I promised myself that one day I would find the Little Prince and let Saint-Exknow that he was back. Consequently,since early in life, I learned to close my eyes, open my heart and. . . began my quest. This tale is the fruit of my search. It has a happy ending as all good fairy taleshave, for it happened that one day. . . when I least expected it. . . I foundthe Little Prince!

Thus, I wrote this book, both as a directanswer to my uncle''s plea, to share the good news with all those who love TheLittle Prince and as an invitation to quest to all those who long to findtheir reality.

I have followed the same format of myuncle''s book and also utilized the same style of drawings, wrapping my ownstory of how I searched and found the Little Prince with as much similarity aspossible to that of his book, for a very good reason: I couldn''t have done it in any other way, forI have loved The Little Prince since I was a child. My reason has been one of love, notarrogance, so please exempt me from the harshness of comparison if you areinclined to do so.