The tale with its easy-to-grasp moral has become a classic children's story and was adapted in November 1991 as a 30-minute animated film produced in Wales and co-financed in Wales and the United States.
In March 2011, the story was adapted as a 3-D film named The Little Engine That Could, produced by Universal Studios and featuring the voices of Whoopi Goldberg, Jamie Lee Curtis, Alyson Stoner, and Corbin Bleu [REF].