There is a wackadoo, bat-shit crazy film adaptation of Le Petit Prince, and it is truly a shame that second-year French students will no longer get to indulge in a week-long blow-off viewing of it. That said, this looks utterly charming and I think the framing device they've come up with will be very successful.

If you somehow managed to make it through childhood without having read Le Petit Prince you should check it out before the movie premieres. It can be read in one sitting and is a pseudo-picture book, although as an adult I wonder why we pretend this is book for children? It seems more like a book about a child, written for adults. Spoiler alert, it's sad and there is a rose who's a real dirtbag and much talk of baobab trees. Like...a LOT of baobabs.

Book Trailers is a recurring post that tricks you into reading the books that inspired great movies (or just great trailers).