The Little Prince Animated Coloring Book

Make your own animated film with this Little Prince book, made for ages 6 and up. You read it, color it in, then bring it to life with the free BlinkBook app.

It works in three steps: color the pages, photograph them with the app, and watch the drawings start to move. Plan on about 1 hour of reading and 4 hours of coloring to end up with an 8-minute film, ready to watch together as a family. It's a fun project, and it teaches kids to take their time, too.

The story is Saint-Exupéry's. Once he has cleaned his planet and looked after his flower, the Little Prince hitches a ride on a flock of migrating wild birds to visit other worlds. One after another he meets the king, the conceited man, the drinker, the businessman, the lamplighter and the geographer, before landing on Earth. "Draw me a sheep," he asks... This gentle, philosophical film is a good way to introduce children to literature.

Children watercolor Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's own illustrations themselves, and see their name roll in the credits as the director.