Editing The Little Prince (section)

== Adaptations and sequels ==
[[File:Richard Burton narrating 'The Little Prince', short 45 RPM demo excerpt.jpg|thumb|A short [[Single (music)#Types of physical singles|45 RPM demo recording]] by [[Richard Burton]] narrating ''The Little Prince'' with music by [[Mort Garson]], excerpted from a longer 33⅓ RPM [[LP record|vinyl record album]]. Burton won the [[Grammy Award for Best Album for Children|Best Children's Album Grammy Award]] for his narration (1975).]]
[[File:Typeface Etoille.jpg|thumb|A typeface inspired by ''The Little Prince'' designed by Graphic Designer You Lu]]
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The wide appeal of Saint-Exupéry's novella has led to it being adapted into numerous forms over the decades. Additionally, the title character himself has been adapted in a number of promotional roles, including as a symbol of [[environmental protection]], by the [[Toshiba Group]].{{sfnp|Beaumont|2010}} He has also been portrayed as a "virtual ambassador" in a [[tobacco control movement|campaign against smoking]], employed by the [[Veolia Environnement|Veolia Energy Services Group]],{{sfnp|Beaumont|2010}} and his name was used as an episode title in the TV series ''[[Lost (2004 TV series)|Lost]]''.

The multi-layered fable, styled as a children's story with its philosophical elements of irony and paradox directed towards adults, allowed ''The Little Prince'' to be transferred into various other art forms and media, including:
* [[Vinyl record]], [[Compact Cassette|cassette]] and CD: as early as 1954 several audio editions in multiple languages were created on vinyl record, cassette tape and much later as a CD, with one English version narrated by [[Richard Burton]].
* [[Radio broadcasting|Radio broadcasts]]: radio plays were produced in the United States, with [[Raymond Burr]], in 1956, and most recently in the United Kingdom on [[BBC Radio|BBC]] in a 1999 dramatization by [[Bonnie Greer]], produced by [[Pam Fraser Solomon]].<ref>[http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/996c7d5a515d4b16b3c413db58f953b8 "The Saturday Play: The Little Prince"] (BBC Radio 4 FM, 25 December 1999 | 14.00), ''Radio Times'', Issue 3957, 16 December 1999, p. 189.</ref>
* Film and TV: the story has been created as a [[The Little Prince (1966 film)|movie]] as early as 1966 in a Soviet-Lithuanian production, with its [[The Little Prince (1974 film)|first English movie version]] in 1974 produced in the United States featuring [[Bob Fosse]], who choreographed his own dance sequence as "The Snake", and [[Gene Wilder]] as "The Fox". In 1987, a Turkish version was adopted into a direct-to-video film by [[Remzi Aydin Jonturk]]. Starting in 2010, a three-season-long [[The Little Prince (2010 TV series)|animated series]] was made that expanded upon the book. In 2015, [[The Little Prince (2015 film)|a major 3D film]], combining computer animation and [[stop motion]] animation, was released as ''The Little Prince'' in English and ''Le Petit Prince'' in French.<ref name="Movieweb.com" /><ref name="HollyWoodReporter.com" /> A 2D-animated series was released in 2023.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kidscreen.com/2021/10/13/broadcasters-hop-on-the-little-prince-series/|title=Broadcasters hop on the Little Prince series}}</ref>
* Stage: ''The Little Prince's'' popular appeal has lent itself to widespread dramatic adaptations in live stage productions at both the professional and amateur levels. It has become a staple of numerous stage companies, with dozens of productions created.
* [[Graphic novel]]: a new printed version of the story in comic book form, by [[Joann Sfar]] in 2008, drew widespread notice.
* [[Pop-Up Book]]: a new printed edition, using the original text (as translated by [[Richard Howard]] in 2000) and St. Exupery's original drawings as the basis for elaborate pop-up illustrations, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ({{ISBN|978-0-547-26069-3}}, 1st ed. 2009).
* Opera and ballet: several operatic and ballet versions of the novella have been produced as early as the Russian ''Malen′kiy prints'' by [[Lev Knipper]], first performed in 1978 with a symphony score composed in the 1960s.
* Concert music: Concert Suite on ''Le Petit Prince'' for solo violin, solo harp and chamber orchestra by Jean-Pascal Beintus (premiered by the DSO Berlin – Kent Nagano – 2008)
[[File:The Little Prince (theatre adaptation).jpg|thumb|right|One of [[List of The Little Prince adaptations|numerous stage adaptations]] of Saint-Exupéry's child and adult fable, this one at the [[University of Minnesota]]'s Rarig Center Proscenium (2010)]]
* [[Anime]]: a Japanese animation TV series was made in 1978, [[The Adventures of the Little Prince (TV series)|''Hoshi no Ōjisama: Petit Prince'']], containing 39 episodes that do not follow the plot of the original novella. Each episode contains an adventure on a planet, usually Earth, where the little prince meets different people each time and makes friends. Some key elements of the original story have been kept. Namely, the little prince's golden hair, his scarf, laughter, his planet name (B-612), the rose and the three volcanoes. The anime had been aired and dubbed into several languages including Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish. The English dub's title is ''The Adventures of the Little Prince''.<ref name="Animenewsnetwork.com">Anime News Network</ref>
* Other: a number of musical references, game boards and a video game version of the novella have been released.

In 1997, Jean-Pierre Davidts wrote what could be considered a sequel to ''The Little Prince'', entitled ''Le petit prince retrouvé'' (''The Little Prince Returns'').<ref name="Davidts" /> In this version, the shipwrecked narrator encounters the little prince on a lone island; the prince has returned to seek help against a tiger who threatens his sheep.<ref name="SDM.qc" /> Another sequel titled ''The Return of the Little Prince'' was written by former actress Ysatis de Saint-Simone, niece of [[Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry]].<ref name="Saint-Simone" />