A piece of wood in Master Cherry’s workshop laughs and cries like a child, so the carpenter hands it to his friend Geppetto, who carves a puppet and names him Pinocchio. Hardly finished, the puppet runs off, ignores the Talking-Cricket and lurches from one scrape to another, while poor Geppetto gives up his own breakfast and much more for the son he made.
Far stranger and funnier than its film versions, Collodi’s 1883 Italian classic appears here in an English translation for young readers. Download the free EPUB.