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"Little John" can be called "the companion piece to "The Little Prince". It is a classic philosophical fairy tale that was popular in Europe at the end of the 19th century. Lu Xun praised it as "a blank poem, a fairy tale for adults" and refused to be nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. The protagonist, Little John, is accompanied by an elf named "Xuan'er", roaming in the fantasy nature, and looking for a "big book that explains life's questions", and later returns to real life with love for humans. Little John's wonderful journey and long search are a fable for young people's growth, and a painful realization conveyed through beautiful fantasy. This excellent fairy tale with both literary talent and philosophy has a beautiful and gentle tone at the beginning, then turns sad and grim, and ends with a bright and positive ending, but also melancholy and tragic, which symbolizes a person's journey from childhood to adulthood. Little John is with the universe, and his love transcends people, gods, animals, plants, and gender. Love is the essence of all things, and little John is the eternal boy.

"Little John" is a philosophical novel with profound meaning and broad imagery. It uses transparent, pure, soft and bright language to describe a beautiful natural paradise. A child named Little John travels through the fantasy world of nature, listening to flowers talk, talking to fireflies and earthworms, dancing with butterflies, swimming with eels, and flying side by side through the sky with pigeons... He is looking for the "Book of Truth" that answers life's questions. This novel seems to be written for children, but even for adults, its content and artistic conception are full of profound and wise philosophical thinking. In the book, reality and illusion are reborn, bondage and separation coexist, time and life and death are accompanied, love and knowledge are intertwined, conveying people's profound thinking and questioning about the world, the value, meaning, ideal and responsibility of life.