Editing Paul Bunyan (section)

== Children's adaptations ==
[[File:Bunyanbigrockcandymountain.jpg|left|thumb|A still from the 1960 [[Mel-O-Toons]] cartoon ''Paul Bunyan''. Typical among juvenile accounts, the cartoon features Paul Bunyan batting cannonballs in the [[American Revolutionary War]], sinking pirate ships, and building the [[Big Rock Candy Mountain]].]]
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Running at variance to his origins in folklore, the character of Paul Bunyan has become a fixture for juvenile audiences since his debut in print. Typical among such adaptations is the further embellishment of stories pulled directly from William B. Laughead's pamphlet, and with very few elements from oral tradition adapted into them. Nearly all of the literature is presented in long narrative format, exaggerates Paul Bunyan's height to colossal proportions, and follows him from infancy to adulthood.{{Citation needed|date=September 2020}}

Some of the more enduring collections of stories include ''Paul Bunyan'' by [[Esther Shephard]] (illustrated by [[Rockwell Kent]]), ''Paul Bunyan'' by James Stevens, ''Paul Bunyan Swings His Axe'' by Dell J. McCormick, ''Paul Bunyan'' by Esther Shephard, ''Paul Bunyan and His Great Blue Ox'' by Wallace Wadsworth, and ''The Marvelous Exploits of Paul Bunyan'' by William Laughead.{{Citation needed|date=September 2020}}

''The Wonderful Adventures of Paul Bunyan'' as retold by [[Louis Untermeyer]] and illustrated by [[Everett Gee Jackson]] was published in 1945 by [[The Heritage Press]], an imprint of The George Macy Companies.

'' Legends of Paul Bunyan'' (1947) was the first book published by the prolific tall tale writer [[Harold Felton]].<ref name=unl>[http://archivespec.unl.edu/findingaids/MS040-felton-unl.html Harold W. Felton, Papers] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150913100015/http://archivespec.unl.edu/findingaids/MS040-felton-unl.html |date=September 13, 2015 }}, archive description at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries (retrieved October 11, 2015)</ref>

In 1958, [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney Studios]] produced ''[[Paul Bunyan (film)|Paul Bunyan]]'' as an animated short musical. In it, Paul competes with his axe in a tree-chopping contest against a steam-powered mechanical saw. The feature starred [[Thurl Ravenscroft]], perhaps best known as the voice of [[Tony the Tiger]] for [[The Kellogg Company]], and was nominated for an [[Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film]].

"[[Three Tall Tales]]", a 1963 episode of ''[[The Magical World of Disney]]'', is an animated three-part anthology. The third part is the tale of Paul Bunyan.<ref>{{cite web |title=IMDB link | website=[[IMDb]] |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0913589/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl |access-date=September 24, 2021}}</ref>

In the 1995 Disney film ''[[Tall Tale (film)|Tall Tale]]'', Paul Bunyan is played by [[Oliver Platt]]. Contrary to the usual image of Bunyan's gigantism, Platt's Paul is depicted as a man of average height, but compensated with a "larger than life" personality consistent with the film's "over the top" nature.

In Marybeth Lorbiekci and Renée Grae's 2007 story ''Paul Bunyan's Sweetheart'', Paul marries Lucette Diana Kensack, a giant Meti woman who teaches Paul to be a forester, replanting the forest after logging.<ref>''Paul Bunyan's Sweetheart'' written by Marybeth Lorbiecki and illustrated by Renée Graef, {{ISBN|1-58536-289-1}}.</ref>

In 2017, an animated film based loosely on the folktale titled ''[[Bunyan and Babe]]'' was released, starring [[John Goodman]] as Paul Bunyan.