First impressions

First I think the "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is a book for children, because there are many pictures inside of it. So chapter 1 starts with a story about the childhood of a pilot, who had a crash landing in the desert. He describes his experiences by drawing pictures. His first picture looks like this:
All people said:" It looks like a hat!"
"My (the pilot) drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. Then I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so the grown-ups could understand. They always need explanations. My drawing Number 2 looked like this: (page 2).
Grown-ups don't understand what the child (the pilot) wantded to say. In chapter 2 the pilot is grown-up and has an accident in the Sahara-desert. There he meets the "Little prince". He is the first human who understands his drawing.
He asks the pilot:" Can you draw me a sheep, please?" But all the sheep the pilot drew weren't right and so he drews only a crate and sad:" The sheep you want is inside!" (page 6) Now the "Little Prince" was delighted.
At this point of the story I was very surprised and asked myself:
Who is the "Little Prince" and where does he come from?

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