Pinocchio was created as a wooden puppet by a woodcarver named Geppetto who lived in a small Italian village. However Pinocchio dreamed of becoming a real boy.

The Adventures of Pinocchio is the original tale of the wooden puppet who wants to be a real boy. In a small Italian village, an old wood-carver named Geppetto lovingly crafts a wooden puppet. But unbeknownst to him, the wood he used was extremely unusual, and when the toy is finished, it comes alive! Named Pinocchio, the puppet can do everything a living boy can do - especially when it comes to making mischief. Pinocchio longs to become a real flesh-and-blood child, but must survive many adventures and learn a few life lessons before achieving his fondest wish. This lively story is full of humor and social observation - much of which has been lost in later re-tellings. Read it yourself and discover the reasons for its enduring popularity with all ages.

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The Adventures of Pinocchio, also simply known as Pinocchio, is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi, written in Pescia. It is about the mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named Pinocchio and his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto.

Pinocchio was created as a wooden puppet by a woodcarver named Geppetto who lived in a small Italian village. However Pinocchio dreamed of becoming a real boy.

Collodi's wonderful story has been adapted countless times for the silver screen and the stage, including Disney's famous adaptation, but the original story is not quite what you would expect; a fascinating and grim children's story, The Adventures of Pinocchio won't leave you disappointed.

The only relief poor Pinocchio had was to yawn; and he certainly did yawn, such a big yawn that his mouth stretched out to the tips of his ears. Soon he became dizzy and faint. He wept and wailed to himself: "The Talking Cricket was right. It was wrong of me to disobey Father and to run away from home. If he were here now, I wouldn't be so hungry! Oh, how horrible it is to be hungry!"

The only relief poor Pinocchio had was to yawn; and he certainly did yawn, such a big yawn that his mouth stretched out to the tips of his ears. Soon he became dizzy and faint. He wept and wailed to himself: "The Talking Cricket was right. It was wrong of me to disobey Father and to run away from home. If he were here now, I wouldn't be so hungry! Oh, how horrible it is to be hungry!"

There is really too much noise and nothing can be heard. From the tables in the large dining saloon of the Prinz Regent Luitpold the medley of sounds comes as from a telephone, with alternate tulness and intervals of quiet, and in scattered masses, like cloud rising and subsiding before a whirlwind. Every table serves as a nucleus for its own nebula, and the fringes get mixed with that next to it. English, French, Italian float in the air, intermingle, allowing for an instant some polite predominance to one or the other, but promptly breaking out again all together, each having the effect of endeavouring to drown the opposing sounds, and reproducing that telephonic babel which rendered conversation so completely. indistinguishable. My companion had to raise his voice he was a French lieutenant de vaisseau, and the commander of the submarine . . . .

The Adventures of Pinocchio is the original tale of the wooden puppet who wants to be a real boy. In a small Italian village, an old wood-carver named Geppetto lovingly crafts a wooden puppet. But unbeknownst to him, the wood he used was extremely unusual, and when the toy is finished, it comes alive! Named Pinocchio, the puppet can do everything a living boy can do - especially when it comes to making mischief. Pinocchio longs to become a real flesh-and-blood child, but must survive many adventures and learn a few life lessons before achieving his fondest wish. This lively story is full of humor and social observation - much of which has been lost in later re-tellings. Read it yourself and discover the reasons for its enduring popularity with all ages.

Join Pinnocchio as he learns what it means to be a real boy. Often his adventures are as harrowing and dangerous as real life. This is not the gentle world of Walt Disney, but a darker, richer world in which the good guy doesn't win just by showing up.

Carlo Lorenzini (who wrote under the name Carlo Collodi) lived from 1826 until 1890. Near the end of his life, he became entranced by the idea of writing the tale of a puppet who had a heart and a mind -- "Le avventure di Pinocchio," they called it as they published it in weekly installments in "Il Giornale dei Bambini," the first Italian newspaper for children.

Lorenzini died unaware of the fame that waited for his work; as in the allegory of the story, Pinocchio eventually went on to lead his own independent life, distinct from that of the author.

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