TY - JOUR T1 - <em>BJGP</em> Library: <em>The Little Prince</em> JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 380 LP - 380 DO - 10.3399/bjgp16X686017 VL - 66 IS - 648 AU - Tim Senior Y1 - 2016/07/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/66/648/380.abstract N2 - The Little PrinceAntoine de Saint-ExupéryMahaveer Publishers, 2009, PB, 128pp, £9.99 978-8183520676I don’t feel grown-up yet. People assume I must be grown-up because I have the outward adult male appearances of a job, children, a house, and a beard. But deep down, adulthood is always ahead of me, not quite for now, and if I’m honest, I’m not sure I ever want to reach that point.Perhaps that’s why I love The Little Prince so much. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s first-person narrator gives us just enough background that we see him trying to suppress his attraction to a child-like view of the world, and learning to talk of adult ‘matters of consequence’. Then he crash-lands his aeroplane in the desert, and out of nowhere meets the little prince.What follows … ER -