Editing Puff, the Magic Dragon (section)

==Adaptations==
A 1978 animated television special, ''[[Puff the Magic Dragon (TV special)|Puff the Magic Dragon]]'', adapted the song. It was followed by two sequels, ''[[Puff the Magic Dragon in the Land of the Living Lies]]'' and ''[[Puff and the Incredible Mr. Nobody]]''. In all three films, [[Burgess Meredith]] voiced Puff. In September 1979,  a picture-book based on the animated feature, written by [[Romeo Muller]], known for his contributions to the [[Rankin-Bass]] holiday TV specials, was published by Avon Books.<ref>{{cite news | newspaper=The New York Times | date=September 16, 1979 | title=Display Ad: Children love what Camelot has | id={{ProQuest|120730663}}}}</ref> In December 2016, it was announced that [[20th Century Animation|Fox Animation]] would produce a live-action/animation film based on the song with [[Mike Mitchell (director)|Mike Mitchell]] as director.<ref>{{cite magazine |url = https://deadline.com/2016/12/puff-the-magic-dragon-movie-trolls-director-mike-mitchell-fox-animation-1201865404/ |title = Peter, Paul & Mary Tune 'Puff The Magic Dragon' In Fox Deal With 'Troll's Helmer Mike Mitchell |first = Mike Jr. |last = Fleming |magazine = Deadline |access-date = December 9, 2016 }}</ref> As of November 2020, the progress of this project had no updates, leading some fans to conclude that it has been quietly canceled.<ref>{{Cite web |date = November 14, 2020 |title = Puff The Magic Dragon Updates: Is The Animated Adventure Still Coming? |url = https://screenrant.com/puff-magic-dragon-movie-updates-release-date-story/amp/ |access-date = July 24, 2022 |website = ScreenRant |language = en-US }}</ref> 

The song was adapted for a children's pantomime, which played at Sydney's [[Seymour Centre]] in 1983.<ref>{{Citation |url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19830821&id=x4ZWAAAAIBAJ&pg=2949,7111984 |title = What's On For the School Hols [sic] |newspaper = [[The Sydney Morning Herald]] }}</ref>

A 2007 book adaptation of the song's lyrics by Yarrow, Lipton, and illustrator [[Eric Puybaret]] gives the story a happier ending with a young girl (presumed by reviewers to be Jackie Paper's daughter)<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/247045 |title = New take on Puff the Magic Dragon |first = Peter |last = Goddard |work = The Star |date = August 18, 2007 |access-date = December 7, 2011 }}</ref> seeking out Puff to become her new companion.  The lyrics remain unchanged from the Peter, Paul, and Mary version; the young girl is only seen in the pictures by illustrator Puybaret. On the last page of the book, she is introduced to Puff by an older Jackie Paper.

The tune was used by Versatec, a computer printer company, in the promotional LP ''Push the Magic Button'' for the song of the same name.<ref>{{Citation |url = http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/sound-recording/versatec/push_the_magic_dragon/Song%20List.doc |title = Push the Magic Button |type = songlist |publisher = [[Computer History Museum]] |work = Archives }}{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

American fabulist [[Robert Coover]] wrote about the later lives of Puff and Jackie Paper in "Sir John Paper Returns to Honah-Lee", the first story in his collection ''A Child Again'' (McSweeney's Books, 2005).<ref>{{cite news |newspaper = The Santa Fe New Mexican |date = October 6, 2006 |page = 100 |title = Absolutely fabulist |last = Prince |first = David |url = https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113338897/sir-john-paper-story/ }}</ref>