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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.

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Book category Books in English Children's, Teenage & educational Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories Classic fiction (Children's / Teenage)

• Full title: Pinocchio
• Author: Carlo Collodi
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 208
• EAN: 9781857155167
• ISBN: 1857155165
• ID: 04302346
• Publisher: Everyman
• Weight: 426 g
• Dimensions: 212 × 164 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. October 2010

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