The Little Prince

The Little Prince (French Le Petit Prince), published in 1943, is French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's most famous novel, which he wrote while staying at a hotel in New York.

Adaptations in other media

• A film musical on the subject, titled, The Little Prince, was made in 1974. This film is notable chiefly in that it marked the final collaboration of composer Frederick Loewe and lyricist Alan Jay Lerner.
• In 1979, Will Vinton Studios produced a cartoon adaptation of the book. This short feature, narrated by actor Cliff Robertson, was one of Vinton's first Claymation productions.
• There was a French-produced cartoon series loosely based on the book that aired in Europe and North America in the 1980s. In it, the Little Prince often traveled to Earth to help people. During the 1980s, the English-language version was aired in the United States on Nickelodeon, as internationally-produced animation often was.
• A musical in French, "Le Petit Prince" by well-known French musical composer Richard Cocciante showed at the Casino de Paris from October 2002 to January 2003. CD and DVD recordings are available. Daniel Lavoie played the Pilot while Jeff played the Little Prince.
• An opera, The Little Prince, based on the book was composed by Rachel Portman. It had its stage premiere in 2003 at the Houston Grand Opera in Houston, Texas. It was broadcast on BBC2 in the UK on the 27th of November, 2004 as a studio-filmed production starring Joseph McManners as the Prince and Teddy Tahu Rhodes as the Pilot.
• The book was also adapted into a play, The Little Prince, by Rick Cummins and John Scoullar.
• In 2005, the book was translated into Toba, an indigenous language of Argentina, as So Shiyaxauolec Nta'a. It was the first book translated into this language since the Bible.
• The actor James Dean was so fond of the book he actually memorized most of its passages.