Fennec Fox: Picture Book (Educational Childrens Books Collection) - Level 2 (Planet Collection)

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The prince has golden hair, a lovable laugh, and will repeat questions until they are answered. Upon encountering the narrator, the little prince asks him to draw a sheep. The narrator first shows him his old picture of the elephant inside the snake, which, to the narrator's surprise, the prince interprets correctly.

After three failed attempts at drawing a sheep, the frustrated narrator simply draws a box, claiming that the sheep the prince wants is inside the box. Again, to the narrator's surprise, the prince exclaims that this is exactly the drawing he wanted. Over the course of eight days stranded in the desert, while the narrator attempts to repair his plane, the little prince recounts the story of his life.

The prince begins by describing life on his tiny home planet: The asteroid's most prominent features are three minuscule volcanoes two active, and one dormant or extinct as well as a variety of plants. The prince describes spending his earlier days cleaning the volcanoes and weeding unwanted seeds and sprigs that infest his planet's soil; in particular, pulling out baobab trees that are constantly on the verge of overrunning the surface. If the baobabs are not rooted out the moment they are recognized, it may be put off until it is too late and the tree has grown too large to remove, its roots having a catastrophic effect on the tiny planet.

The prince wants a sheep to eat the undesirable plants, but worries it will also eat plants with thorns.

The prince tells of his love for a vain and silly rose that began growing on the asteroid's surface some time ago. The rose is given to pretension, exaggerating ailments to gain attention and have the prince care for her. The prince says he nourished the rose and attended her, making a screen or glass globe to protect her from the cold wind, watering her, and keeping off the caterpillars. Although the prince fell in love with the rose, he also began to feel that she was taking advantage of him and he resolved to leave the planet to explore the rest of the universe.

Upon their goodbyes, the rose is serious and apologizes that she failed to show she loved him and that they'd both been silly. She wishes him well and turns down his desire to leave her in the glass globe, saying she will protect herself. The prince laments that he did not understand how to love his rose while he was with her and should have listened to her kind actions, rather than her vain words. The prince has since visited six other planets , each of which was inhabited by a single, irrational, narrow-minded adult, each meant to critique an element of society.

It is the geographer who tells the prince that his rose is an ephemeral being, which are not recorded, and recommends that the prince next visit the planet Earth. The visit to Earth begins with a deeply pessimistic appraisal of humanity. The six absurd people the prince encountered earlier comprise, according to the narrator, just about the entire adult world.

On earth there were. Since the prince landed in a desert, he believed that Earth was uninhabited. He then met a yellow snake that claimed to have the power to return him to his home, if he ever wished to return. The prince next met a desert flower, who told him that she had only seen a handful of men in this part of the world and that they had no roots, letting the wind blow them around and living hard lives.

After climbing the highest mountain he had ever seen, the prince hoped to see the whole of Earth, thus finding the people; however, he saw only the enormous, desolate landscape. When the prince called out, his echo answered him, which he interpreted as the voice of a boring person who only repeats what another says.

The prince encountered a whole row of rosebushes, becoming downcast at having once thought that his own rose was unique and that she had lied. He began to feel that he was not a great prince at all, as his planet contained only three tiny volcanoes and a flower that he now thought of as common. He lay down on the grass and wept, until a fox came along. By being tamed, something goes from being ordinary and just like all the others, to being special and unique.

There are drawbacks, since the connection can lead to sadness and longing when apart. From the fox, the prince learns that his rose was indeed unique and special because she was the object of the prince's love and time; he had "tamed" her, and now she was more precious than all of the roses he had seen in the garden. Upon their sad departing, the fox imparts a secret: Back in the present moment, it is the eighth day after the narrator's plane crash and the narrator and the prince are dying of thirst.

The prince has become visibly morose and saddened over his recollections and longs to return home and see his flower. The prince finds a well, saving the pair. The narrator later finds the prince talking to the snake, discussing his return home and his desire to see his rose again, whom he worries has been left to fend for herself. The prince bids an emotional farewell to the narrator and states that if it looks as though he has died, it is only because his body was too heavy to take with him to his planet.

The prince warns the narrator not to watch him leave, as it will upset him. The narrator, realizing what will happen, refuses to leave the prince's side. The prince consoles the narrator by saying that he only need look at the stars to think of the prince's lovable laughter, and that it will seem as if all the stars are laughing.

The prince then walks away from the narrator and allows the snake to bite him, soundlessly falling down. The next morning, the narrator is unable to find the prince's body. He finally manages to repair his airplane and leave the desert. It is left up to the reader to determine if the prince returned home, or died. The story ends with a drawing of the landscape where the prince and the narrator met and where the snake took the prince's corporeal life. The narrator requests to be immediately contacted by anyone in that area encountering a small person with golden curls who refuses to answer any questions.

The story of The Little Prince is recalled in a sombre, measured tone by the plot-narrator, in memory of his small friend, "a memorial to the prince—not just to the prince, but also to the time the prince and the narrator had together". You can't ride a flock of birds to another planet The fantasy of the Little Prince works because the logic of the story is based on the imagination of children, rather than the strict realism of adults". According to the author himself, it was extremely difficult to start his creative writing processes.

In The Little Prince , its narrator, the pilot, talks of being stranded in the desert beside his crashed aircraft. On 30 December , at Both miraculously survived the crash, only to face rapid dehydration in the intense desert heat. Lost among the sand dunes with a few grapes, a thermos of coffee, a single orange, and some wine, the pair had only one day's worth of liquid. They both began to see mirages , which were quickly followed by more vivid hallucinations. By the second and third days, they were so dehydrated that they stopped sweating altogether. In a letter written to his sister Didi from the Western Sahara's Cape Juby , where he was the manager of an airmail stopover station in , he tells of raising a fennec that he adored.

In the novella, the fox, believed to be modelled after the author's intimate New York City friend, Silvia Hamilton Reinhardt, tells the prince that his rose is unique and special, as she is the one he loves. The fearsome, grasping baobab trees, researchers have contended, were meant to represent Nazism attempting to destroy the planet. I can't help it. Consuelo was the rose in The Little Prince. I should never have fled. I should have guessed at the tenderness behind her poor ruses. The author had also met a precocious eight-year-old with curly blond hair while he was residing with a family in Quebec City in , Thomas De Koninck , the son of philosopher Charles De Koninck.

Some have seen the prince as a Christ figure, as the child is sin-free and "believes in a life after death", subsequently returning to his personal heaven. Late at night, during the trip, he ventured from his first-class accommodation into the third-class carriages, where he came upon large groups of Polish families huddled together, returning to their homeland. I sat down [facing a sleeping] couple. Between the man and the woman a child had hollowed himself out a place and fallen asleep. He turned in his slumber, and in the dim lamplight I saw his face.

What an adorable face!

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A golden fruit had been born of these two peasants This is a musician's face, I told myself. This is the child Mozart. This is a life full of beautiful promise. Little princes in legends are not different from this. Protected, sheltered, cultivated, what could not this child become? When by mutation a new rose is born in a garden, all gardeners rejoice. They isolate the rose, tend it, foster it. But there is no gardener for men. This little Mozart will be shaped like the rest by the common stamping machine This little Mozart is condemned.

His intention for the visit was to convince the United States to quickly enter the war against Nazi Germany and the Axis forces , and he soon became one of the expatriate voices of the French Resistance. In the midst of personal upheavals and failing health, he produced almost half of the writings for which he would be remembered, including a tender tale of loneliness, friendship, love and loss, in the form of a young prince visiting Earth. An earlier memoir by the author recounted his aviation experiences in the Sahara, and he is thought to have drawn on the same experiences as plot elements in The Little Prince.

He wrote and illustrated the manuscript during the summer and fall of Although greeted warmly by French-speaking Americans and by fellow expatriates who had preceded him in New York, his month stay would be marred by health problems and racked with periods of severe stress, martial and marital strife. These included partisan attacks on the author's neutral stance towards supporters of both ardent French Gaullist and Vichy France. After spending some time at an unsuitable clapboard country house in Westport, Connecticut , [51] they found Bevin House, a room mansion in Asharoken that overlooked Long Island Sound.

The author-aviator initially complained, "I wanted a hut [but it's] the Palace of Versailles "; but as the weeks wore on and the author became invested in his project, the home would become " a haven for writing, the best place I have ever had anywhere in my life". One of the visitors was his wife's Swiss writer paramour Denis de Rougemont , who also modeled for a painting of the Little Prince lying on his stomach, feet and arms extended up in the air.

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While the author's personal life was frequently chaotic, his creative process while writing was disciplined. On the other hand, he was ruthless about chopping out entire passages that just weren't quite right", eventually distilling the 30, word manuscript, accompanied by small illustrations and sketches, to approximately half its original length.

The large white Second French Empire -style mansion, hidden behind tall trees, afforded the writer a multitude of work environments, but he usually wrote at a large dining table. His meditative view of sunsets at the Bevin House were incorporated in the book , where the prince visits a small planet with 43 daily sunsets, a planet where all that is needed to watch a sunset "is move your chair a few steps. In addition to the manuscript, several watercolour illustrations by the author are also held by the museum. They were not part of the first edition. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux "One sees clearly only with the heart.

What is essential is invisible to the eye" was reworded and rewritten some 15 times before achieving its final phrasing. Multiple versions of its many pages were created and its prose then polished over several drafts, with the author occasionally telephoning friends at 2: Many pages and illustrations were cut from the finished work as he sought to maintain a sense of ambiguity to the story's theme and messages.

Included among the deletions in its 17th chapter were references to locales in New York, such as the Rockefeller Center and Long Island. Other deleted pages described the prince's vegetarian diet and the garden on his home asteroid that included beans, radishes, potatoes and tomatoes, but which lacked fruit trees that might have overwhelmed the prince's planetoid. They can be either hot places, or cold places. Both plants and animals have adapted to be able to live in the desert. It can rain so much all at once in a desert that it can cause a flood.

Can you find all the words in this cactus wordsearch? Links to facts about desert habitats and environments around the world. See a list of the largest deserts around the world with size and topography details for each one and of the world's coldest deserts.

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They store up fat so they can sleep for a month or so at a time in the colder winter months, and they can even share a winter den with other animals like opossums and muskrats so everyone stays warm. Wood frogs have camouflaged skin so they blend into the background very well. They have a layer of mucous on their skin so they can slip away from predators. They can also hibernate in the winter when their habitat gets too cold for comfort.

Porcupines are basically rodents like rats but they have a really amazing way to defend themselves. Ways animals adapt in grassland habitats: Grasslands sometimes go a long time without water, but giraffes have adapted by not needing to drink water for weeks at a time.

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They can get by from the water in the leaves they eat, which they can reach because of their super-long necks. Meerkats live in areas that are almost like deserts — hot, dry and not much vegetation. Meerkats live in big colonies where they share out jobs like minding babies, keeping watch for any danger and hunting for food. Lions talk to each other through their loud roar — it also sounds scary so any other predators know to steer clear. Lions mostly sleep in the day to stay cool, and they hunt at night.

When they do catch prey, they use their long claws as weapons and then eat their fresh meal by licking off skin and meat with their rough tongue. Ways animals adapt in marine habitats: Stingrays have flat bodies and swim along the ocean floor. Ways animals adapt in polar habitats: Polar bears in the Arctic have white fur that helps them blend into the snowy background. They also have a thick layer of fat around their body to keep warm, and big paws with long hair that keeps them from slipping on ice.

They only lay one egg that they can sit on while they wait for it to hatch, and mum and dad take turns sitting on the egg and going to get food to make sure their little one has all the warmth they need. The snowy owl , like the polar bear, is white all over which helps it blend in with the snow. The snowy owl has feathers everywhere — even on its toes! Ways animals adapt in rainforest habitats: Toucans have very long beaks that are actually about one-third of their entire body length. But, these beaks are also lightweight, and mean that toucans can pick up large pieces of fruit, which they toss in the air and catch in the back of their beaks to eat.

Toucans keep balanced on trees in the rainforest by using their claws — two on the front and two on the back — to get a good grip that keeps them from falling down. Howler monkeys are one of the loudest animals on earth, which is how they get their name! They live up in the rainforest canopy, where it can be difficult to see very far around because there are lots of leaves and branches in the way.

So, they use their loud voice to call out to other howler monkeys, and to make sure other animals know where their territory is. Howler monkeys also wrap their tails around tree branches to keep from falling down. Tapirs are larger rainforest animals that live on the forest floor. They have sloped shoulders that allow them to move around under bushes and shrubs, and small eyes deep in sockets that protect them from insects and bits of trees getting in.

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