Biennial One Book celebration brings ‘The Little Prince’ to life
By Cat Oriel, News & Features Editor|April 11, 2018
The Class of 2018 commenced the biennial One Book tradition with a surprise kickoff celebration in the courtyard on Tuesday, Apr. 10.
Watch the video above and look through the photo gallery below to see more from the event.
Full story to follow.
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A group of students and teachers pose while dressed as characters from the book. The celebration will continue throughout the week with more readings, discussions and activities in paired advisories.
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Uma Halsted ’18 smiles while dressed like the Little Prince during the One Book celebration in the courtyard. Halsted was one of four seniors that read a section of the book aloud to the entire school.
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Senior Alex Feldman plays with bubbles while dressed like an astronomer from the book. Feldman was one of the seniors who met every Monday during lunch to plan the week’s festivities.
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Rose Shulman-Litwin ’18 holds up cut-out decorations shaped like birds, which were inspired by the art on the cover of the book. All of the art from the book was also done by author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The decorations were made in the Archer IdeaLab.
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Kisa Rozenbaoum ’18 places copies of “The Little Prince” on a table in preparation for the event. Students were welcome to read and bring home copies of the book.
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Senior Claire Bardin blows large bubbles while wearing a large bubble costume that represents a planet. Seniors in costumes went to each advisory to bring them to the courtyard for the celebration.
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Annie Friedman ’24 holds up a copy of “The Little Prince” while wearing a lamb costume. Friedman acted out a part from the book by jumping out a large box during the readings.
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Seniors Marlena Lerner and Julianna Goldsmith pose with trays full of cookies while wearing pilot hats that were also costumes for this year’s dance show. In addition to cookies, copies of the books and little scrolls with quotes were handed out to students.
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A group of students and teachers pose while dressed as characters from the book. The celebration will continue throughout the week with more readings, discussions and activities in paired advisories.
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Uma Halsted ’18 smiles while dressed like the Little Prince during the One Book celebration in the courtyard. Halsted was one of four seniors that read a section of the book aloud to the entire school.
Photo credit: Cat Oriel
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- class of 2018
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- Courtyard
- English class
- food
- French
- one book
- seniors
- The Little Prince
- tradition

Cat Oriel joined the Oracle staff as a contributing writer in 2015, was promoted to Voices Editor in 2017 and is now the News and Features Editor. She...
Scarlet Levin • Apr 11, 2018 at 11:51 pm
Thanks for adding a video beforehand. I missed the festivities, and know how difficult it is to complete a story within a few hours of an event. Good use of the critiques we got from the NSPA!