Disney’s ‘Little Prince’ becomes ‘TopoPrincipe’

In the wake of the publishing success of ‘PaperDante’, Giunti will publish another comic literary parody Made in Disney tomorrow, that of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s ‘Little Prince’ entitled ‘TopoPrincipe’ again within the same series. Literature in Comics, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the first publication of the European edition. “The ‘TopoPrincipe’ is a poetic and exciting volume, a suspended flight between dream and fantasy that unites generations in the reading of a great classic – underline the authors – A book that, ideally, holds the reader in a big embrace to discover the beauty, an embrace of those that we have missed so much in recent times “. The work is the result of the choral work of the Giunti-Disney Libri editorial team and of a creative trio that has already contributed to the success of ‘PaperDante’, formed by Augusto Macchetti, author of the texts, Giada Perissinotto and Andrea Cagol, creators of the drawings and coloring of the atmospheres and illustrations respectively. An illustrated prologue, through the eyes of a child, introduces the characters and accompanies the discovery of the graphic novel. “There are stories that walk alone, with a long step, around the world and in immortality: everyone knows them and everyone they love them. Among these stories, ‘The Little Prince’ is perhaps the one that is destined to go farther, because more than walking, it flies “, explains Veronica Di Lisio, director of the Disney Books division for the Giunti publishing house. furrow of the Disney tradition of great literary parodies, “but we made an original work of it, where the present also enters, which precisely because it is here under our eyes at times seems difficult to read and to tell, especially to children – he continues Di Lisio – Both the prologue and the graphic novel, in fact, are outlined in a present time, with characteristics that are easily recognizable by readers of all ages, in a world seen through the simple and sincere eyes of children “. (By E nzo Bonaiuto)