# Pinocchio

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- Book: [Pinocchio](https://www.bookquiver.com/carlo-collodi/pinocchio) ([Pinocchio.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/carlo-collodi/pinocchio.md))
- Authors: [Carlo Collodi](https://www.bookquiver.com/carlo-collodi)
- Publisher: childrens_classics
- ISBN: 978-18-5715-516-7
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2010-10-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Everyone knows Pinocchio, the walking, talking wooden puppet carved from a table leg. Pinocchio, an endearing scamp, is always getting himself into trouble. But it isn't the sort of trouble most kids get into. Skiving off school, he is kidnapped by a puppeteer, robbed by a Cat and Fox, and persuaded to visit an earthly paradise where naughty children have perpetual fun - and turn into donkeys. Sold to a circus, then to a man who tries to drown him for his donkey-skin, he miraculously turns back into a puppet and goes in search of his 'father' (whom he must rescue from the belly of a giant dogfish ...). Throughout these manic adventures he is haunted by the ghost of a Talking Cricket he has crushed to death for giving good advice, and watched over by his personal guardian fairy. All the while, Pinocchio dreams of becoming a real boy. Told with wit and humour, his story is also a moral fable about making the right choices, and what it is to be a loving human being. Pinocchio is an astonishing work of fantasy which has been toned down and sentimentalized over the years, not least by the Walt Disney film. Everyman returns to a beautifully illustrated early translation of 1916 which captures the vivid inventiveness of Collodi's original.