History YMMV / TheLittlePrince

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: [[WordOfGod According to the author]], it's a philosophical book under the disguise of a children's book. Then again, there's nothing saying that a philosophy book can't be for children.

* BrokenBase: Which English translation is better, Katherine Wood's which was in use from 1943 to 2001 or Richard Howard's more recent one that replaced Wood's?

* InternetBackdraft: The news of a Spanish remake called "La principesa" that replaced many of the original book characters for [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad more politically correct characters and values]] was '''badly received''', [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment and that's all we will say]]. [[https://www.amazon.es/Principesa-Adaptaci%C3%B3n-Principito-Saint-Exup%C3%A9ry-Literarios/dp/1976742277/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8 Most of the reviews on Amazon are negative, to say the least]].

* InternetBackdraft: The news of a Spanish remake called "La principesa" that replaced many of the original book characters for [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad more political correct characters and values]] was '''badly received''', [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment and that's all we will say]]. [[https://www.amazon.es/Principesa-Adaptaci%C3%B3n-Principito-Saint-Exup%C3%A9ry-Literarios/dp/1976742277/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8 Most of the reviews on Amazon are negative, to say the least]].

* AwesomeMusic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hklPwd1k-WY Rachel Portman's operetta]].

* InternetBackdraft: The news of a Spanish remake called "La principesa" that replaced many of the original book characters for [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad more political correct characters and values]] was '''badly received''', [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment and that's all we will say]]. [[https://www.amazon.es/Principesa-Adaptaci%C3%B3n-Principito-Saint-Exup%C3%A9ry-Literarios/dp/1976742277/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8 Most of the reviews on Amazon are negative, to say the least]].

* HarsherInHindsight: The book ends with the Prince disappearing after getting a possibly fatal snake bite. The author himself disappeared on a mission in World War II, with no conclusive proof about his fate. '''Even harsher''' taking into account the claim that the author was shot down in World War 2... by a German pilot who loved the book and shared that love with his children. He said he broke down crying when he learned he had gunned down Saint-Exupéry of all people.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: The book's elements and imagery, while not overtly trippy, are certainly a bit weird. It is believed that Saint-Exupéry got inspired greatly from the heat hallucinations he suffered when he crashed his plane on the Sahara desert, an event which directly inspired his novel ''Wind, Sand and Stars'' before ''The Little Prince''.

* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory : Okay, the Little Prince is Jesus. The Fox is a willing convert to faith (possibly St. Francis of Asissi, since he has a wolf totem, plus the fox is faithful and provides comic relief). The Snake is THE Serpent from the Garden of Eden. The Sheep in the box is an allegory - and Jesus talked in parables and metaphors, including one about a lost sheep, plus he was referred to as the Good Shepherd. The Rose is [[AuthorAvatar Saint-Exupéry's wife]] - or the good seeds from the parable. The baobab trees are the bad seeds that Jesus talked about in the same parable.

* HarsherInHindsight: The book ends with the Prince disappearing after getting a possibly fatal snake bite. The author himself disappeared on a mission in World War II, with no conclusive proof about his fate. EVEN HARSHER taking into account the claim that the author was shot down in World War 2... by a German pilot who loved the book and shared that love with his children. He says he broke down crying.

* FauxSymbolism: Okay, the Little Prince is Jesus. The Fox is a willing convert to faith (possibly St. Francis of Asissi, since he has a wolf totem, plus the fox is faithful and provides comic relief). The Snake is THE Serpent from the Garden of Eden. The Sheep in the box is an allegory - and Jesus talked in parables and metaphors, including one about a lost sheep, plus he was referred to as the Good Shepherd. The Rose is [[AuthorAvatar Saint-Exupéry's wife]] - or the good seeds from the parable. The baobab trees are the bad seeds that Jesus talked about in the same parable.
** [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory The Pilot is all of us]], [[GrowingUpSucks grown up!]] The Pilot is the author's avatar.

* HarsherInHindsight: The book ends with the Prince disappearing after getting a possibly fatal snake bite. The author himself disappeared on a mission in World War II, with no conclusive proof about his fate.
** Becomes EVEN HARSHER when it was found out. The author was shot down in World War 2... By a German pilot who loved the book and shared that love with his children. He broke down crying.

* InNameOnly: The show's premise only vaguely resembles that of the original book.
** That's actually because this is supposed to be less the original book and more a sequel to it.

* FauxSymbolism: Okay, the Little Prince is Jesus. The Fox is a willing convert to faith (possibly St. Francis of Asissi, since he has a wolf totem, plus the fox is faithful and provides comic relief). The snake is THE Snake. The Sheep in the box is an allegory- and Jesus talked in parables and metaphors, including one about a lost sheep, plus he was referred to as the Good Shepherd. The Rose is [[AuthorAvatar Saint-Exupéry's wife]]- or the good seeds from the parable. The baobab trees are the bad seeds that Jesus talked about in the same parable.
** But that leads to the question of who the Pilot is supposed to be.
*** [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory The Pilot is all of us]], [[GrowingUpSucks grown up!]] The pilot is the author's avatar.

* FauxSymbolism: Okay, he's Jesus. The Fox is a willing convert to faith. The snake is THE Snake. The Sheep in the box is an allegory. Or a parable, the college studies group hasn't gotten back on that. The Rose is [[AuthorAvatar Saint-Exupéry's wife]].

*** [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory The Pilot is all of us]], [[GrowingUpSucks grown up!]]

* TearJerker: The end when [[spoiler:the little prince returns to his asteroid]].
** Or, if you interpret it differently, [[spoiler:the prince returns post-mortem]].
** And on a meta level, [[spoiler: interpreting the narrator as Saint-Exupéry himself, who died in WorldWarII soon after writing this novel. Then read the epilogue where the Narrator asks for word if the Prince ever returns...]]
** Not to mention when the prince finally realizes that he must return to his rose, and consequently must abandon his now-tame Fox. It's worse if you've seen the movie, where the Fox is played by gentle GeneWilder.
--->"Ah," said the Fox, "I shall cry."
*** And then of course the Fox's last lesson for the prince, especially if you think of its importance near the ''end'' of the book... say with the laughing stars:
---->And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: [[spoiler:It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye]].
** The exchange between the narrator and the Prince in chapter 6.
--->"One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!" And a little later you added: "You know -- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..." "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?" But the little prince made no reply.

!! ''Literature/TheLittlePrince (book)

!!WesternAnimation/TheLittlePrince (CGI series)

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: [[WordOfGod According to the author]], it's a philosophical book under the disguise of a children's book.
** Then again, saying that ''because'' it's a philosophy book, it's not for children, may be CompletelyMissingThePoint...

* [[{{ptitlerax1116nu5ji}} What Do You Mean, It's Not For Children?]]: [[WordOfGod According to the author]], it's a philosophical book under the disguise of a children's book.

*** And then of course the Fox's last lesson for the prince, especially if you think of its import near the ''end'' of the book... say with the laughing stars:

---->And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: [[spoiler:It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.]]

--->"One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!" And a little later you added: "You know--one loves the sunset, when one is so sad . . ." "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?" But the little prince made no reply.