It's well worth reading this to your kids... if you have any, if not read it to your pets instead if you want... it is really interesting watching them as they try to understand what is going on. My daughter always asks questions whilst we read together, but with this book the number of questions sky rocketed. It really captured her imagination, she was almost at tears in one scene and loved the series of small planets the little prince visits in his travels and the wonderful characters he met. Pretty sure one of those characters was Charles Bukowski.

Real sweet story with lovely little illustrations, I loved how the narrator didn't know how to draw a fox and what he ends up with looks more like an aardvark.

There is also an interesting bio at the end, the author went missing, a year after publication, he was flying over the Mediterranean similar to the narrator in the story... maybe he found his way back to the little prince.