This short book, published in 1943, has aged well. Despite the amount of pictures and its childish whimsey, this book discusses some serious adult issues. Its about a little boy who goes around on different planets and asteroids and grows up and learns things about the world and about people. He starts out very naive and matures into a person. Some of the confusing things in the world are addressed, such as romance and why people do weird things. He gardens a beautiful, vain rose who he loses and misses so much. He meets a man who is the only person on his planet, but he lights the lamp anyway. An overworking banker who sits there and doesn't do anything with his life. The whole scope of the world to a young boy is really examined. The metaphor of the whole universe being the world makes one feel small and insignificant. I really liked this book because the little prince questions what he doesnt understand. Too many people just go with the flow and don't care enough about things. He doesn't know how to tame this fox, so the fox teaches him how to tame it. He doesn't know why he would need to tame the fox and the fox doesn't really know either. For such an outlandish seeming story, it really felt real, and the emotions in the story are strong. You get to understand why he thinks the way he does, he's so easily relatable, even though its not the way we usually think. I really enjoyed every page of this book and I think that you will too.