When I was ten, my favourite book was... Guest Blog by Dave Brown

My guest blog today is by Dave Brown, who is the manager at one of my favourite bookshops, WH Smith at Teesside Park.

The Little Prince by the French writer, poet, and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, first published in April 1943 and voted the best book of the 20th century in France.

It was hard to remember what my favourite book was when I was 10 years old. So I read a few to remind myself and that was great fun – thank you for giving me a reason to do that.

But in the end it had to be The Little Prince. Even after all the books I’ve read in all these years since then, the book I read when I was 10 is still my all time favourite book in the whole world ever. It is a children's book written for adults to remind them about the wonder of the world as a child, or is it a children's book written for children to show them how stupid  the adult world is and to never grow up to much…? I don't know.

What I do know is it is about a little Prince who appears in our world and starts to question what we do and how we feel through his own experiences in our world and also through the little stories he tells about his own. The illustrations are magical as well. I also love it because it is very short and I can probably remember most of the lines in it off by heart.

It is the most wonderful book in the whole world to me and I recommend it all the time to children and adults when they come in my shop.

Dave Brown, Manager, WH Smith Teesside Park