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===Places=== ==== Playground ==== [[File:PikiWiki Israel 16505 quot;The Little Princequot; garden in Holon.JPG|thumb|Sculpture of the lamplighter in a "story playground" themed after ''The Little Prince'' in [[Holon]], Israel]] * One of the "story playgrounds" – a series of playgrounds themed after famous children's stories in [[Holon]], Israel – is themed after ''The Little Prince''. It features sculptures and play structures depicting scenes and characters from the book. ==== Schools ==== * ''L'école Le Petit Prince'' is the public elementary school in the small community of [[Genech]] in northern France, dedicated in 1994 upon the merger of two former schools. With nine classrooms and a library, its building overlooks the village's ''Place Terre des Hommes'',<ref>[http://www.genech.fr/L-Ecole-le-Petit-Prince.html L'Ecole le Petit Prince] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009191745/http://genech.fr/L-Ecole-le-Petit-Prince.html |date=9 October 2013 }}, Genech.fr website. Retrieved 29 May 2014.</ref> a square also named in tribute to Saint-Exupéry's 1939 philosophical memoir, ''[[Wind, Sand and Stars|Terre des hommes]]''. * A [[Primary school|K–6 elementary school]] on [[Avro Canada|Avro Road]] in [[Maple, Ontario|Maple]], Ontario, Canada, was also opened in 1994 as ''L'école élémentaire catholique Le Petit Prince''. Its enrollment expanded from 30 students in its first year to some 325 children by 2014. One of Saint-Exupéry's colourful paintings of the prince is found on its website's welcome page.<ref name="CSDCCS">[http://lpp.csdccs.edu.on.ca/ École élémentaire catholique Le-Petit-Prince | Bienvenue] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529090814/http://lpp.csdccs.edu.on.ca/ |date=29 May 2014 }}, Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud, updated to 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2014.</ref> ==== Avenue ==== * In southern [[Brazil]], in the city of [[Florianópolis]], there is the ''Avenida Pequeno Príncipe'' (Little Prince Avenue in Portuguese), whose name is a tribute to Saint-Exupéry, who passed through the city during his aviator career, an event that became part of the local culture.<ref>{{cite web|title=Campeche tem indícios da passagem do autor de 'O Pequeno Príncipe' |date=27 February 2014 |publisher=G1 |url=http://g1.globo.com/sc/santa-catarina/verao/2014/noticia/2014/02/praia-do-campeche-tem-referencias-da-passagem-de-exupery-pelo-local.html |access-date=23 December 2017 }}</ref> * At 972 Fifth Avenue in New York City, a bronze statue was unveiled of the ''Little Prince'' by French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs [[Catherine Colonna]] in September 2023. The project to create the sculpture was initiated by the American Society of Le Souvenir Français, in partnership with the Antoine de Saint Exupéry Youth Foundation. The sculpture sits outside the headquarters of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, overlooking the pedestrians on Fifth Avenue. The four-foot-tall sculpture, created by Jean-Marc de Pas, was carved from clay and cast in bronze in one single piece in his studio in [[Normandy]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Albertine Team |date=September 20, 2023 |title=The Little Prince's New York City Homecoming |url=https://www.albertine.com/the-little-princes-new-york-city-homecoming/ |website=Albertine.com |access-date=6 January 2024 |archive-date=6 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240106143140/https://www.albertine.com/the-little-princes-new-york-city-homecoming/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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