Book description
The old wood-carver Geppetto decides to make a wonderful puppet which
can dance and turn somersaults, but by chance he chooses an unusual
piece of wood - and the finished puppet can talk and misbehave like
the liveliest child. But Pinocchio is brave and inquisitive as well as
naughty, and after some hair-raising adventures, he earns his heart's desire.
Heart-warming introduction by John Boyne, author of Boy in the
Striped Pyjamas.
Carlo Collodi (pen-name of Carlo Lorenzini) was born in Florence in
1826. He began his career as a journalist and worked as a civil servant
before becoming a published author. In 1881 he wrote a short episode in
the life of a wooden puppet for a newspaper, and it was an immediate
success. The first English language version of the adventures of
Pinocchio was published in 1892, two years after his death.
