This is a great film to show a little kid. Closely based on the book (even using those great illustrations), and with beautiful music by Lerner and Loewe, it is magical and poignant. Steven Warner is wonderful as the Prince who came down from the littlest asteroid in the sky. Bob Fosse's snake dance is still being imitated by my little kid. The music certainly lives up to the book and more than that, illuminates the character of the narrator to an infinite degree. I am still humming the songs a week after I've seen it.