Why you'll fall in love with this version of The Little Prince

First published in 1943, The Little Prince has sold more than 140 million copies worldwide.

Shortly after Mark Osborne accepted the daunting job to direct an adaptation of the celebrated French novella The Little Prince, the animator was in the Morgan Library in New York, viewing author Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s original manuscript and drawings for the book.

“You could see (Saint-Exupery’s) scribbles and his cross-outs,” said Osborne, who had taken on the project as a follow-up to co-directing the Oscar-nominated first Kung Fu Panda movie for DreamWorks Animation.