Artwork: The Little Prince

Once in one of my shining moments of getting tooootally mixed up, I accidentally thought that my assignment in my freshman philosophy class was to read Machiavelli's THE PRINCE, when actually....the assignment was to read THE LITTLE PRINCE by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Thatttt was a long night's worth of reading. I promise that condensing that much political brou-ha-ha into one study session is... as bad as it sounds. So when I got to class I was looking around...."Why does everyone have a picture book? Where's my syllabus..." (This was college, mind you.) Well... son of a gun. Read the wrong book. So back to the bookstore I went to fix my little mistake and lo and behold---for something that is masquerading around as a children's book, The Little Prince packs a lotttt of wisdom. I love this book. And so --- I was excited when I received my One Kings Lane email to see 

Little Prince artwork

featured. 

I would do one of two things with these prints...

 either: 

a ) the obvious choice: a gallery wall in a child's room 

or

drumroll

b ) a smaller size hanging over a side table, entry table (like in a small apartment), or over a desk

(in an arrangement such as this:)

via nest bliss

I am sure you have heard this quote...

the fox tells the prince,

 "Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

The illustrations are so simple...I think that's most of the charm

Using picture books for art is awesome in two-fold: 

one, it's personal because you choose books that mean something to you 

and 

2

dude....not expensive. While these are posters that you can buy individually, what's much easier is to just buy the largest size of the book you can find, and tear the pages out. (Blasphemy. Tearing books? You can also copy them onto good paper.)