THE LITTLE PRINCE AUDIOBOOK SPOILER FREE REVIEW

 Here is the link to the audiobook video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APG1upS8LDw&ab_channel=ChristopherWilliams

This is my first audiobook of the year. It is of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's novella The Little Prince. While it may look like a kid's picture book story (and can still be read as one), it is also a story of deep philosophical themes that can hit harder when you are an adult. That's why the book is so popular among adults as well.

The plot itself is about an unnamed narrator who is a pilot who crash landed in the Sahara Desert. As he is trying to fix his plane, a young boy, The Little Prince, asks him to draw him a sheep. The narrator is not confident in his drawing skills as he gave up drawing as a kid a long time ago when the grown ups in his life couldn't understand his drawings of boa constrictors. He draws a sheep inside of a box for The Little Prince, which satisfies him, and then he tells the narrator about his planet and flower, his journey on how he got to Earth and his small visits to other small, odder planets, and meeting a fox and a snake. He tells the narrator and us all of this while they both go look for water to drink. 

I don't know how else to word this except while it is a magical adventure on the surface, several themes about growing up, love, life, and friendship are interwoven in the story, and they resonated with me even as an adult reader. It made me tear up at times! The audiobook narrator and voices for the characters are really well done, too. 

I gave this book 4.5 stars. I took half a point off for two reasons: 1. I wasn't really a fan of the relationship of the Little Prince and his flower (well, I mostly didn't like the flower. She's pretty vain, even if she says she loves the Little Prince), and there is one part in the beginning where the main characters are discussing astronomers discovering planets, and one of them is a Turkish one is isn't taken seriously unless he wore "European clothes". Well, being a book from the 1940s, there are some things that haven't aged too well. But I think the story overall still holds up. 

What are your favorite books you've heard on audio?