The Adventures of Pinocchio
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Carlo Collodi's classic tells the story of Pinocchio, a wooden puppet carved by the poor woodcarver Geppetto, who longs to become a real boy. Pinocchio is disobedient and easily led astray. He skips school, lies, falls in with crooks and stumbles from one misadventure to the next. First published in Italy as a serial in the early 1880s, the story is darker and stranger than its later film versions.
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- Neil deGrasse Tyson: “The last book that I read to both of my kids, at the same time, was Carlo Collodi's "The Adventures of Pinocchio" (1883)”