In life, people always desire for something more or something else, although they have everything they need. Sometimes the food that we eat daily becomes tastier because of some good company. After having walked miles, it is only the humble colourless, tasteless, odourless water that tastes like the elixir of life. We admire its sweetness, savour its taste, and thoroughly relish its flavour, thus quenching our thirst.
An aviator crashes his plane in an African desert and suddenly comes across this prince. This prince comes from a little planet, which the aviator feels is an asteroid. The little prince has nobody on the planet except a rose plant.
Many of the discussions that take place between them are about perspectives, which is quite interesting. Sometimes what adults perceive is not as beautiful as children do. The author elucidates this with drawings which give us a clearer picture of how people think and grasp.
Before reaching the earth, the prince goes to many planets and sees many people and observes their behaviour.
The book can be read by children as well as adults, but adults must read it as it explains most simplistically what adults ignore and take for granted in their daily lives. Though written in a simple fluid style, the book is very symbolic. It portrays love, friendship, greed, loneliness, life, appreciation etc.