Ideal for reading aloud to those five and up and excellent solo reading for more sophisticated types.
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The Adventures of Pinocchio is the jagged sort of story that children love, full of violent and romantic adventure, of foolish braggadocio and wise authorial counsel. In these pages, our hero doesn't skip about on jolly adventures with a talking cricket he flattens the moralizing insect in a fit of pique. This edition will likely douse any lingering affection children or their parents have for the Disney version of Pinocchio's escapades. You can judge this book by its cover: The dust jacket predicts a bleak, wintry, Bruegelesque scene in which Pinocchio encounters a menacing pair of con artists, one a leering cat in overcoat and boots, the other a fox in fedora and open-fingered gloves (these baddies reappear inside the book as assassins disguised in caol sacks and brandishing shiny knives). Carlo Collodi's original 1881 tale of the naughty, egotistical boy-puppet and his disastrous mishaps leaps to life via the rich illustrations of Roberto Innocenti, who himself should rank as an Italian national treasure. This is an astonishingly beautiful book that may make the other volumes on a child's shelves look cheap and sawdusty by comparison. –Sharon Stuart, Midwest Book Review, August 2005 This simply outstanding and enthusiastically recommended edition of The Adventures of Pinocchio does full and complete justice to the wonder and storytelling skills that originally made the life and travails of a wooden puppet brought to life so universally beloved.
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This is the original story that includes all of Pinocchio's travels, including getting ambushed by vile assassins, strung up in a tree, drowned in the sea, nursed back to health by a beautiful blue-haired fairy, slaying a large serpent through laughter, getting chained up as a dog to catch thieving weasels, arrested for fighting with classmates, almost eaten by a ravenous fisherman, saving a great mastiff and being saved by the mastiff in return, morphing into a performing donkey, flying on the back of a pigeon, getting swallowed by a gigantic shark, saving Geppetto's life, and so much more that most readers will be completely unaware of if the only contact they've had with this sophisticated story is the Disney movie and the abbreviated children's picture book version. Now a new edition of this magnificent and imaginative fairy tale has been superbly illustrated by Roberto Innocenti with intricate artwork of museum gallery quality.
Children will be enthralled by his depiction of busy marketplaces, bright farmyard scenes, mysterious winter landscapes and even the inside of the giant shark.Ĭarlo Collodi is the pseudonym of Carlo Lorenzini (1826-1890), an Italian journalist whose translations of French fairy tales in the late 1870s became so popular that he wrote his own "Le Avventure di Pinocchio" (The Adventures of Pinocchio) in 1881, which went on to become a children's classic around the world and in 1940 was the basis for the animated film by Walt Disney. Innocenti, one of the finest artists working in the field, created more than 50 magnificent illustrations for this handsome, high-quality edition. Pinocchio's travels are filled with adventure he is ambushed, almost eaten by a fisherman, flies on the back of a pigeon and gets swallowed by a gigantic shark. This beautiful re-release will take readers young and old on an imaginative journey into another world. Collodi, an Italian journalist (his real name was Carlo Lorenzini) first published Pincocchio, the story of a mischievous and misbehaving wooden puppet, in 1881. Another is the stunning, imaginitive art by the renowned Italian illustrator Innocenti, who has also illustrated the Nutcracker and A Christmas Carol. That's just one reason why The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, illustrated by Roberto Innocenti, would make a welcome addition to a child's library. Children today are more likely to have seen the Walt Disney 1940 film version of Pinocchio than to have read the original book.
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