Cover of The Adventures of Pinocchio

The Adventures of Pinocchio

Carlo Collodi · 1883

ages 5 to 8chapter bookread aloud

About this book

First serialised 1881 · Published as a book 1883 · One of the most translated books in the world

Carlo Lorenzini, writing under the name Collodi after his mother's home town, began the story as a weekly serial in an Italian children's paper in 1881. He first ended it at chapter fifteen, with the wooden puppet hanged from an oak tree, dead. Readers protested, the editor asked him to carry on, and months later he resumed, taking Pinocchio all the way to becoming a real boy. The whole was collected as a book in 1883.

It was the first Italian children's book to win a wide international audience, and has since become one of the most translated books in the world. The puppet whose nose grows when he lies is now recognised almost everywhere, often through retellings far gentler than Collodi's original.

The copy on this shelf is the full original story, translated from Collodi's Italian.

Chapters

A long one: read it a chapter a night.

  1. Chapter I
  2. The Piece of Wood That Laughed and Cried Like a Child
  3. Master Cherry Gives the Wood Away
  4. Geppetto Names His Puppet Pinocchio
  5. The Talking-Cricket Scolds Pinocchio
  6. The Flying Egg
  7. Pinocchio's Feet Burn to Cinders
  8. Geppetto Gives His Own Breakfast to Pinocchio
  9. Geppetto Makes Pinocchio New Feet
  10. Pinocchio Goes to See a Puppet-Show
  11. The Puppets Recognize Their Brother Pinocchio
  12. Fire-Eater Sneezes and Pardons Pinocchio
  13. Pinocchio Receives a Present of Five Gold Pieces
  14. The Inn of the Red Craw-Fish
  15. Pinocchio Falls Amongst Assassins
  16. The Assassins Hang Pinocchio to the Big Oak
  17. The Beautiful Child Rescues the Puppet
  18. Pinocchio Will Not Take His Medicine
  19. Pinocchio Again Meets the Fox and the Cat
  20. Pinocchio Is Robbed of His Money
  21. Pinocchio Starts Back to the Fairy's House
  22. Pinocchio Acts as Watch-Dog
  23. Pinocchio Discovers the Robbers
  24. Pinocchio Flies to the Seashore
  25. Pinocchio Finds the Fairy Again
  26. Pinocchio Promises the Fairy to Be Good
  27. The Terrible Dog-Fish
  28. Pinocchio Is Arrested by the Gendarmes
  29. Pinocchio Escapes Being Fried Like a Fish
  30. He Returns to the Fairy's House
  31. Chapter XXX
  32. Pinocchio Enjoys Five Months of Happiness
  33. Pinocchio Turns Into a Donkey
  34. Pinocchio Is Trained for the Circus
  35. The Theater Will Be Brilliantly Illuminated
  36. Pinocchio Is Swallowed by the Dog-Fish
  37. A Happy Surprise for Pinocchio
  38. Pinocchio at Last Ceases to Be a Puppet and Becomes a Boy

Public domain. Source text via Project Gutenberg, PG boilerplate removed. View the source edition

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