The Little Prince Published in 1943 The Little Prince is a fantasy about a pilot stranded in the Sahara who meets a small boy from another planet The boy who refers to himself as a prince is on a quest for knowledge The little prince asks questions of the pilot and tells the pilot of life on his own very small planet This story is told in a simple fashion as childrens stories typically are but it is not really a childrens story It is a story of a grown up who has almost forgotten what is import