The Little Prince

Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature,
about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. Here is a
copy of the drawing. In the book it said: “Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without chewing it. After that they are not
able to move, and they sleep through the six months that they need for digestion.”
I pondered deeply, then, over the adventures of the jungle. And after some work with a colored pencil I
succeeded in making my first drawing. My Drawing Number One. It looked something like this. In the book it said: “Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without chewing it. After that they are not
able to move, and they sleep through the six months that they need for digestion.”
I pondered deeply, then, over the adventures of the jungle. And after some work with a colored pencil I
succeeded in making my first drawing. My Drawing Number One. It looked something like this: