Author Conor Grennan goes to to Nepal to volunteer at a home for orphaned children at the onset of a round-the-world trip. At first, his intent is to impress friends and women with his noble act. When he arrives at the Little Princes home outside of Kathmandu, he quickly learns the reality of these children's lives and falls in love with them. They are not orphaned; they were taken away from their parents by child traffickers who tricked their parents into giving them large sums of money, ostensibly so the traffickers could take their children to safety in a country suffering from civil war between a monarchy and the communist Maoist party.

Grennan returns to Nepal a year later and begins a quest to save Nepalese children from traffickers, to locate their families in hard-to-reach regions of Nepal, and reunite lost children with their families.

I found this to be a very illuminating and touching story with a lot of humor and heart as well--hard to avoid with houses filled with the playful and rambunctious antics of young children. You may experience wellings of emotions as Conor relates his feelings for the children and when he finally locates children taken by traffickers. It is also touching to read the parents' reactions when they learn after many years that their children are alive and safe. My only criticism is that towards the end of the book it gets a bit heavier on Conor's relationship with his eventual wife, Liz, while seeming to skim over activities related to his work with and for the children. So in the end it is a story of Conor above being a story of the Little Princes. Nonetheless an eye-opening and inspiring story.