Adaptations
Chuck Jones adapted the story as an animated special in 1966, featuring narration by Boris Karloff, and songs sung (uncredited) by Thurl Ravenscroft. The animated film often appears on American television during the Christmas season, and once appeared on Boomerang UK in 2010.
In 1975, Zero Mostel narrated an LP record of the story.
There also was a VHS tape version narrated by Walter Matthau. Random House Home Video.
The book was translated into Latin as Quomodo Invidiosulus Nomine Grinchus Christi Natalem Abrogaverit: How the Grinch Stole Christmas in Latin by Jennifer Morrish Tunberg with the assistance of Terence O. Tunberg in 1997.
A musical stage version was produced by the Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, in 1998. It also was produced on Broadway and a limited-engagement US tour in 2008.
An audiobook of the book read by Rik Mayall was released in 1999.
The book was adapted into a live-action film starring Jim Carrey in 2000.
The Grinch character was reprised in Seuss's Halloween Is Grinch Night and The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat.
The Grinch and Max also appear in the children's show, The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss.
Glee makes a parody of 2000 film based on the book in the episode Extraordinary Merry Christmas.
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