Original Title 小王子 Text & Illustrations by 马玉 (Ma Yu) Pages 40 Age 1-3 Publisher Poplar | Lian Huan Hua Publishing House August 2018
Little Prince is a cat who is obsessed with cleanliness. He also dislikes his fur getting wet and other cats approaching his bowl. He finally went out of the house because he was hungry, only to discover that the outside world was a horrible place where all of his dislikes could occur. What would he do if he had to choose between food and old habits?
Ma Yu currently resides in Beijing after graduating from the Department of Chinese Painting at the Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts. She enjoys making picture books, product designs, and anything to do with painting. Wukong, Be A Good Boy! was one of her works that won the International Original Picture Book Award and was published in Japan by Hakuyosha. The Adventure on Mars, the third title in the “Wukong, Be A Good Boy!” series, won the 4th “Young China” Children’s Cultural Works Picture Book Group Finalist Award and the “Zhang Leping Picture Book Award” Finalist Award in 2016. The “Wukong, Be A Good Boy!” series also represented China at the 2017 Bratislava International Illustration Biennale.
小王子是一只猫，一只爱干净的猫。它有很多“不喜欢”：它不喜欢它的毛被弄湿，它不喜欢别人靠近它的碗，它不喜欢别的猫吃它碗里的食物、甚至是靠近它。有一天，它的主人没有回来，它饿坏了，它决定自己一个人跑了出去看看，在公园里，发现了不一样的世界，所有之前它的不喜欢都出现了。面对饥饿和习惯这两个选择，它能放下自己的底线去做一些改变吗？它会继续坚持么？让我们一起期待吧！
《小王子》中的主角形象，来源于作者马玉几年前养的一只暹罗猫。作者是一个爱猫的女孩，这只猫与她一起生活了好多年。不过有一次当主人外出的时候它就突然的跑了出去，作者就像寻找自己的孩子一样到处招贴寻猫启事，晚上给窗户留一个缝隙，希望它自己能够回来，甚至为了找它，本该搬家的作者，又把房子续租了几个月。不过奇迹没有出现，它再也没有回来。作者常常会想起它，想起他们以前在一起的日子，开心的、快乐的，有时候担心它是不是吃饱了，是不是淋雨了，有时候也会想它现在过得好不好、有没有朋友呢？她希望通过这本书告诉小王子去过它向往的属于它自己的日子吧。
马玉，毕业于西安美术学院中国画系，现居北京。喜欢做图画书，也做产品设计，做跟画画有关的事。
绘本《悟空，乖！》获国际原创图画书奖，并在日本白杨社出版。2016年，《悟空，乖！》系列第三部——《火星奇遇》荣获第四届“少年中国”少儿文化作品绘本组入围奖、“张乐平绘本奖”入围奖。《悟空，乖！》系列作品还代表中国参加2017年度布拉迪斯拉发国际插画双年展评选。此外，作品《五个小怪物》入选《中华读书报》：“2016不可错过的15种好书”。
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